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Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: 
if any man hear my voice, and open the 
door, I will come in to him, and sup with 
him, and he with me. 



SONNETICAL 



NOTES 



ON 



PHILOSOPHY 



BY 



WM. HOWELL WILLIAMS. 



THE LIBRARY ©F 

CONGRESS, 
Two Copifcs Receives 

APR. 28 1902 

CO»>VRI«HT ENTRY 

0LA83 «^XX0. No. 

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Copyrighted by 

Wm. Howell Williams, 

April, 1901. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Philosophy must knowledge be, 
Hence knowledge is philosophy. 

It matters not what savant say 

If somehow knowledge comes man's way. 

Supposing can be only fun, 
And knowledge never so begun. 

With supposition's wand laid by 
Hume, Berkley, Kant and Hegel fly. 

Nay! single, several, or all. 
Together taken they appall. 

Philosophers need not agree, 
Still is philosophy to be. 



All knowledge is on being cast: 
The being first and knowledge last. 

But note, ''The first shall be the last 
And last shall be the first" ere cast. 

Such knowledge only consciousness 
In case of being under stress. 

All other were mere vanity, 
Save, sadly, 'tis profanity. 

Though Being ever is to seem. 
Existence never is a dream. 

Condition all existence wake. 
Sensation for the being take. 

Conditions are relations blent. 
So several show single bent. 

Relations unrevealed compound 
Conditions that sensation bound. 



To senses fashioned but to feel . 
A semblance only can appeal. 

Existence, hence, persistency 
Of some conditionality. 

Persistence, very texture, hence, 
Of every experience. 

Conditions only semblance own 
By well concealed relations shown. 

The actual in semblance spelt 
Awake perceptions never felt. 

Perception we characterize 
In claiming to philosophize. 

Sensation having done its part 
Unseen relation lends its art. 

Its language never being made 
The Actual I can't parade. 



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in fact no language now exists 
Save tongue to tell of what persists. 

Relations unfelt feeling blends 
And ideas existence lends. 

As semblance of condition they 
Like semblance of relation stay. 

Though both as semblance only wrought, 
A deathless being gains the thought. 

The realm of all relation can't 
Recall a thought it once has lent. 

The mountain, world or universe, 
But never thought it can disperse. 

The working part relation's role 
All being what relation dole. 

For like conditions old or new 
Like semblance is forever true. 



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For like relations only speak 
Why like conditions never freak. 

Relations ideas, hence, mould, 
And thus philosophy is told. 

All Being is on dying bent, 

And knowledge yields no nutriment. 

In thought, a stuff of deathless part. 
Relation works this plastic art. 

Sensation blent with idea 

As consciousness it makes appear. 

Philosophy, all knowledge, hence, 
Condition of experience. 

In consciousness experience 
Is manifesting prescience. 

In prescience experience 
Establishes thought permanence. 



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Nor need eventuation solve 
All prescience assume to prove. 

Beginning nor the end of time 
Eventuation need not chime. 

Time being but persistency 
Of some conditionality. 

Sensation notes persistency 

And time existence gains thereby. 

Nor length nor breadth nor depth of space 
Need an eventuation trace. 

Space being but consistency 
Whereof there is persistency. 

So wide, yet narrow still, enough, 
To mirror all in one brain stuff. 

Ere Prescience eventuate 
The Absolute must for it wait. 



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With Absolute Philosophy 
Awake from dreamless lethargy. 

With Absolute Philosophy 

Will end the dream like pageantry. 

With absoluteness hedging in 
Sensation must end or begin. 

On prescience as consciousness 
The absolute will ever press. 

As property, we mortals say, 
Who mystery would put away. 

As unconditioned it will be 
Inclusive of Divinity. 

And out of man's experience 
Divinity shape prescience. 

Each perfectly see it is so 
And yet the fool to logic go. 



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He only taking in as sent 
Away will reason increment. 

Woe unto reasoners, said He, 
Fools, liars, hypocrites to be. 

A philosophical refrain 

So perfect, meeting yet disdain. 

"Come unto me and I will give 
You rest," He said to all who live. 

But spoke in vain, for as before 
The simple truth craft tangled sore. 

Pride and its speculation take 
Them all to bell, bead, book or fake. 

Some Mahomet or may-be church 
Still teaching leave Christ in the lurch. 

Look at the lilies of the field 

Said He, lo! nothing thence did yield. 



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The lilies still are telling plain, 
Organic things all joining strain. 

We all are here without dispute 
By ruling of an Absolute. 

To-morrow needs no heed, said He, 
And straight all speculators be. 

Swear not, and man tried not to curse! 
While ever vowing to do worse. 

The idle oath, as bubble burst, 
Leaves everything as at first. 

The vowing, as will-power known. 
Is root of ev'ry evil grown. 

Not faith but knowledge would lead man, 
Did he himself but see as can. 

No argument imposing stay 

On world from childhood passed away. 



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Blind led by blind, the Christ did say, 
Will meet disaster on the way. 

The voice still cries in wilderness: 
Repent and take a consciousness. 

To save all men unconsciousness 
Died John the Baptist in distress. 

To give mankind a consciousness 
Lived Jesus Christ of Nazareth. 

The simple truth to be create 
And not we ourselves try to make. 

In Reason man himself preferred, 
Hence reason finds the truth absurd. 

never man by Adam fell. 

But from himself needs saving well. 

False logic often and again 

Most monstrous fables long sustain. 



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A Newton like a Moses dreamed, 
And many fancies real seemed. 

The poets ever widen breach 
Through which vain supposition reach. 

Fair sentiment enthralls them all 
And hides the truth so well withal. 

Behold the chemist pry and smile, 
In fancy knowing as a child. 

Lord Kelvin fig'ring out the sun. 
In fancy pulls a temple down. 

For fancy never room be found 
Where there is nothing not profound. 

Ere was condition manifest 
The unconditioned was at rest. 

Relations of rest with unrest 
Hence did condition manifest. 



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To such relation specify 
We use the word velocity. 

Velocity sole history 

Of uncondition's mystery. 

A mystery sensation feels 
When to itself for truth appeals. 

The mystery which consciousness 
Must grasp in place of nothingness. 

Relation through condition place 
The phantom we as matter chase. 

Not substance but condition we 
On looking out shall learn to see. 

As form manifestation take 
What verily relations make. 

Sensation's fond reality 
Existing still in verity. 



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In verity of passing slow 

To what with greater speed must go. 

To consciousness reality 
A manifesting Deity. 

The proposition absolute: 
Humanity shall evolute. 

To act an earthly part is, hence, 
In conscious being an offence. 

With wonder any knew of old 
The mission of the Christ is told. 

As thought in having deathless part 
Is free of Deity from start. 

And image on a consciousness 
Is able to make deep impress. 

Impressions of an earthly sort 
Deface what evolution wrought. 



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'Twas happy never true to say 
The devil mischief comes to play. 

Invention of a reason did 
What fabled satan said to bid. 

No deity would reason plan 

To lead estray its creature man. 

Nor maker dare his duty shirk 

And leave to chance what he should work. 

All know these things are true in fact 
And yet accordingly none act. 

.Self-pride with selfishness lie and 
Uncharitableness withstand. 

Till worldly kingdom grown so bold 
Is something fearful to behold. 

The humble who now sigh for rest 

A strife, mart, state or church oppress. 



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Still stands a priestcraft militant 
For what as reasoners they want. 

While seedling wisdom Christ did plant 
Stands withered, forgotten, distant. 

The curse, if be a curse, on man. 
Is simply to understand. 

What punishment do they deserve 
The human reason would observe. 

The foolish question to repeat 
What justice so-called sinners mete. 

Not one, but all, or none at all, 
Heaven's kingdom must enthrall. 

A single being left to fate 

A Heaven's host would give to hate. 

Bare sufferers, not sinners bare, 
Dependent creatures like men are. 



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The evil seen, though truthfully 
Unsought, was wrought by Deity. 

To Deity will knowledge trace 
Conditions all of human race. 

The errant, deathless thought, now free, 
From Deity get liberty. 

All evil will in time disperse 
As evolution works reverse. 

Though evolution is so slow, 
An endless time it has to go. 

One day of Christ's philosophy 
Would subjugate propensity. 

The end behold, in knowledge wrought. 
Is kingdom Heaven long had sought. 

Who enters here leaves hope behind. 
And bows his head to what designed. 



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In taking Heaven's kingdom find 
"All other things" to him inclined. 

Who thinks will pause, who feels will go, 
And either travel far, I trow. 



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The lilies still are telling plain, 
Organic things all joining strain: 

The end, behold, in knowledge wrought, 
Is kingdom Heaven long had sought. 

Who enters here leaves hope behind, 
And bows his head to what designed. 

In taking Heaven's kingdom find 
All other things to him inclined. 



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Sonnetical Notes on Philosophy < 



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I. 



While man trains up the child in way men go, 
It goes without the saying that man's way 
In life convention only will display, 

As each one by himself can surely know; 

Hence may these notes that light of rush-light throw 
Where glares, so-called, civilization's day. 
Without night's darkness chasing once away. 

Perchance, as simple truth, for some one glow: 

If seen the curse, if be a curse, on man 
Is taxing self to understand, amid 

Environment that ever keeps its place, 
What shape may take his life, if any can, 
That haunting foolishness alone not bid 
Him to endure, with pain, but for disgrace. 



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11. 



Man's place is truth that makes no sign, but is, 
Which man, who seek a sign where is no sign. 
Will ever overlook till forced repine 

In dumb despair since nothingness is his. 
For other than what is may not say 'tis 
But to impose on blind a fool's design 

As thorns about the brow of Christ -define 

Not him, but those who mock, with emphasis: 

Less puncto see and pundit silent pass 
Mankind from truth will ever wander on 

Since never earthly learned can know the truth. 
Each for himself must struggle from the mass 
Less absolute, as absolute, be gone 

And leave the world to manners all uncouth. 



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III. 



What is, has been, or may be will comprise 
What living men know and philosophy 
As knowledge sum, whatever it may be. 

But other showing man as knowledge prize 
And actual of value all deprived. 
Whence knowledge once a sensibility 
Of a present conditionality 

Must helpless self-persistence enterprise: 

Among a numberless as useless crew 
Of fancies earthly born that mocking scorn 
Intrusion of celestially born truth, 
And true philosophy can little do 

As struggling light of a dawning morn 
In lifting darkness from life yet in youth. 



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IV. 



To knowledge be, the knowing must assize, 
Some truth that actual persistence holds 
To an existence in time, young or old: 

Moreover such persistence must apprise 

Man's being of condition that arise 

When unrevealed relations blent unfold 
The things we as reality behold. 

And not what human reason may surmise: 

Whence come as from some hidden source 
The baseless fabric filling human mind 
As mummery of knowledge never known. 
As if in mere supposing lay resource 

Of knowledge lacking helpless human kind 
If tardy seem their maker's method grown. 



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The mystery complexity betrayed 

In harking backward to relations blent 
In manner several show single bent 

As semblance of condition on parade 

That life's reality might be displayed, 
Resolves to mystery of one intent 
Found permeating every event 

For obedience nothing should evade: 

Wherefore if man evade he gains no end 

That knowledge can to consciousness propose 
As worthy suifering its quest insure, 
Since no philosophy will course defend 

Of outcast one whom reason make suppose 
Self-effort only welfare can secure. 



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VI. 



While being as a semblance of unshown 

Relation in condition blent impress 

Sensation, it in turn will being stress 
And a third being thus existence own; 
Which, when as conscious state of being known, 

An endless thirst for knowledge will unbless 

Till rightful obedience it address 
To absolute condition whence 'twas blown: 

To flower into knowing creature man 
According to design creative will 

Disclosed in structure of the universe. 
Whence will philosophy, since knowledge, ban 
Presumption that by mere supposing fill 

The world with learning namelessly perverse. 



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VII. 



That fair imagination paints a place 

Delusion haunts, and little wonder ware 
Poor mortals never of the meager fare 

They barter birthright for when fancy chase; 

That absolute condition will not trace 

Again the pathway none have trodden bare; 
Nor absolute philosophy declare 

That ever guidance led a willful race: 

Perhaps fools, liars, hypocrites ignore, 

Or pride may shorten sight to present ease, 
But the ''damned spot" doth not for this eiface, 
Nor is there here ''a mind disease" to cure, 
But vanity that silly fancy please. 

And, lo! ''the poor" is then the human race. 



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VIII. 

Relation in creative scheme suffice 

The universal work so well perform 

That understand none mystery of form, 
Wherein is unity concealed device 
That aggregations numberless entice, 

Obedient creatures all, to swarm 

Confines wide universal, saving norm 
Man, sold by self to self for paltry price: 

voiceless, ever saying wherefrom all 

Of earth have birth and mirth, or dearth, or worth, 
Tell wayward man why simple being is. 
That he too knowing whereto he is called 
May boldly trusting to his worthy birth 
Find heaven's kingdom is for taking his. 



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IX. 



Formation in each aggregation speak 

For being monody monotonous 

In ever saying truth is obvious; 
Yet! Reason, an imagination's freak, 
Persuading creatures they are strong when weak. 

And ever making knowledge dubious 

To prove contention of the curious 
Who vitals tear from life with preying beak: 

Not powers, principalities or age, 
As hypocrites pretend believe prevail 

O'er man, but only self-pride bite him sore 
Whose pestilent infection naught assuage 
Till earth to earth and dust to dust avail 
Slow evolution wrong to make no more. 



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X. 



Though aggregation form, as semblance place, 
Where mere sensation will substantial find 
Unseen relation force conditioned mind 

Form aggregation ever set to face 

Perception shall be as fixed for the case; 
Then, saving mystery itself defined. 
Will nothing more be seen by living kind 

Who portion theirs each take with kindred race: 

As absoluteness hedging in mankind 
Is demarkation unmistakable 

Of bounds that earthly creatures cannot pass, 
So, likewise, will their knowledge be defined 
As consciousness indistinguishable 

Among conditions that each encompass. 



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XL 



The genesis of consciousness led to 

A method of relation unrevealed 

Withholds from pride the self esteem concealed 
In postulate that so-called reason show, 
The truth without a motor aid bestow; 

Moreover would a guideless reason yield 

A knowledge spurious to lead afield 
The hapless creature trusting thereto: 

While amount of false logic man's mind stand 
Betray besotting influence of sin 

So-called, against the Holy Ghost, so named, 
Or, otherwise, mere consciousness demand 
Implicit be obedience within 

A scheme designing-will for all had framed. 



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XIL 

The life of mere imagination rage 

Where actual condition should subsist 
And man's entire obedience enlist 

Where never one its service now engage; 

And this has been since recollection's age 
The obvious reverse of aught that wist 
Creation's care among the stretching list 

Of generations history can page: 

Behold! He still stands knocking at the door; 
If any man will open unto him, 

Then life will enter in and with him sup. 
And absolute philosophy before 

Your mind holds light (that never any trim) 
That shows held to your lips a poisoned cup. 



Xlil. 

If seems Relation and Condition named 
Causation bidding being to exist 
And their awaiting pleasure to persist. 

Infirmity of language be ashamed 

If thus creative power is defamed 

While consciousness that reason fails to hist 
Knows primal one has only cause to list; 

If need be any praised or any blamed: 

Whence, one assembly must as whole ordain 

And vice of reason thus make obvious 

If nonsense is co-ordinating cause; 

Since speed no bar receiving rate maintain 

Self-pride in creature is made dubious, 

Perchance, pretension never giving pause.. 



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XIV. 

As mortal being fact of being con 

It sees all enter life without recourse 
And all continue it without resource 

A meaningless as endless, wobegone 

Procession from and to unknown beyond, 
Whereas philosophy perceives in force 
A lawful as an orderly concourse 

Of being that an Actual lead on: 

From absolute, whence all conditions come, 
To absolute, whither all ever go, 

Without exception, question or a doubt. 
And consciousness of interval will sum 
All knowing any being ever know 

When overgrowth of fancy shall die out. 



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XV. 



If any saw at any time he saw 

Cbwn Reason showing consciousness as act 
Where absolute philosophy gave fact 

Since truth is once and never more by law: 

If language that synonymous make flaw 

And act is fact and fact is act, distract 
Poor clown, his cap and bells will still attract 

And pot will boil however gained applause: 

Since words that will define no state are dead 
And truth is not sustained by earthly food 
All living sight, all living truth has lost; 
In vain imagination o'er all spread 

A blinding veil the sightless ever brood 

On what the endless round they tread has cost. 



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XVI. 

If granted all that Kidd virtually said 
In Social Evolution, that man vow 
To super-natural things only bow, 

Still would imagination be outspread 

Entangling net wherein man's feet will tread: 
No nature, hence, nor super-nature row, 
Where absolute philosophy saw how 

An unconditioned all conditioned bred: 

And less to absolute all things man trace 
He never will be other than the myth 
That now imagination bids exist: 
Nor less to absolute all things shall face 
Will consciousness find actual wherewith 
To banish imagery that thus persist. 



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XVII. 

Admit mere reason regulates desire 

Allays dull care, dismisses idle fear, 
Restrains vain hope, apprise of danger near, 

And generally life, that wants inspire, 

Forwards against whatever bids retire. 

Defines man's rights, appraises holdings dear, 
Describes a wrong, forbids a seeking drear. 

And decks temporal life in best attire: » 

Lest (sic): "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: 
"If any man hear my voice, and will open 
"The door, I will come into him and will 
"Sup with him, and he with me." Quoad hoc: 
Is reason sin to sup with self be token 
That, metaphorically, make life nill. 



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XVIII. 

While Actual essential mystery 

In all, no semblance of condition sown 
Wide broadcast as the Universal Shown 

Proclaims sensation ever did it see. 

Where mystery meets sensibility 

Both cease what seem (or blend we say) and lone 
Perception from creative hand has flown, 

To aggregate in time humanity: 

Flights, never faltering, chance any one 
Meet mystery and other flights come still, 
And so on till creation's cup run o'er, 
Perchance, a flight shall meet like self all's done 
If aggregates self -pride as mortal will 
That must forth lonely wander ever more. 



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XIX. 

Awake, behold! The Actual within 

Perception, shunning sight as timid hart, 
Mysterious constituent impart 

That will a sensibility new coin 

When meeting humble consciousness to join. 
Of life above mere animative part 
Of any creature that creative art 

Designed to live in world that it see in: 

Whence seeing humble ourselves all the while 
As sure mysterious constituent 
Obedient awaits humility. 
Alas, self-pride mankind can so beguile 
That foolish vanity so evident 
Can under ban put all humanity. 



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XX. 



Perception came to parting of the ways 
When ever did ill or well first deride 
Mankind for one or other to decide 

Till he forgot how all his many days 

A leading hand had led, as through a maze, 

His heedless steps, bent ear to subtle pride 
Soft whispering that he himself could ride 

The waves that break in vast eternal haze: 

And once mankind on portless voyage sail 
With mystery Perception hid on board, 
An outcast stow away that none perceive. 
From age to age are blown without avail 

Less chance that stow away to sight restored 
As captain port of consciousness achieve. 



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XXI. 

Perception, which mankind so highly prize, 
Not only consciousness, but, sportively, 
Awoke, existence shown by imagery, 

So well, where mare perceptions blent apprise 

Of semblances no creative plan comprise, 
Though once they led man in idolatry 
And now lead him in mere profanity 

Of life creation's plan should enterprise: 

And thus profane world generation on 
To generation goes though plainly will 
Each generation see 'tis mummery. 
Since life from whence creative purpose gone 
Is empty mockery that can fulfill 
No end defined in any summary. 



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XXII. 

Since images that perception yield mankind 

Will represent indifferently all, 

Or any form of semblance, actual 
Or visionary, as alike, man's mind, 
As a collection of them, needs must find 

The worth of its store is provisional 

On only garnering conditional 
States, absolute condition has defined: 

And obviously, even being man, 

As a creation, corresponds with mere 
Predominance of the true or false kind 
Of images in a brain, and only can 
He be create which actual uprear. 

Since knowledge only forms the human kind. 



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XXIII. 

Granted, faltering of human life in course 
Created plan for it defined is seen 
As incongruity enough to wean 

Man's reason from trust that initial source 

Unfailingly him and all issue forth, 

Still will a conscious life recoil from scene 
That independent entity will mean 

However stioutly reason may discourse: 

Creation may include as incomplete 
Full many a scheme, evolution slow 
Will bring symmetrical development: 
And greater far than halting human feet 
As open inconsistency will show 

While not disclosing growing increment. 



XXIV. 

While actual conditions disappear . 

And prove Relation has mobility, 

Conditioned once, Idea quantity 
Becomes, that to perception ever clear 
Dismemberment of state need never fear. 

And possible, hence, that perversity 

Of being now displaces humanity 
Creation contemplated on earth to rear: 

A world of living creatures wholly glad 
To live and do obediently all 

Its purpose unrevealed to them required. 
And world would be so now if only had 
Man knowledge that philosophy will call 
A consciousness of Truth as it transpired. 



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XXV. 

Creative contemplation though aside 

Be set, tomorrow stands as yesterday, 
But helpless being willfully astray 

Not only labor of returning stride 

Endure, but all the pain of wounded pride, 
And discontent, that only to obey 
From disobedient will put away, 

While violated will to do still abide: 

Were reason attribute to human kind 
No reasoner would knowingly contend 
That self-sufficient creature could exist. 
But logic only serves the wholly blind 
As pride is to beginning or the end 
Of life in which awhile it may persist. 



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XXVL, 

Unseen, Relation burden solely bear 

Whenever a condition state display 

That actual existence will betray, 
Perversity of being, hence, may dare 
Inquisitiveness face without a care, 

And whimsical propensity let play 

Since knowledge never will attempt portray 
So mythical a feature as despair: 

That characterize worldly planning man 
Extemporized but for ascenic scene 
And not for an abiding entity, 
Whence vainly spending being on his plan 

And trusting never strength on which must lean 
All who go faceward to eternity. 



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XXVll. 

Within the house of Rimmon manners strange 
Mankind are making bow, as Naaman did 
When, knowing that within his breast is hid 

Dissent which shown a custom would derange, 

He bowed, lest master's favor he estrange. 
They bow in mummery, while Truth amid 
Their multitude the cerenjony bid 

See the desecration of its earthly grange: 

A sight, where worldly kingdom earth has grown 
Displace awhile that heaven planned for time 

And mumming figures that mumm are self -create, 
But in a heaven's kingdom overthrown 

Poor Truth, like manhood wasting all its prime, 
Sees cast away wherein was all estate. 



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XXVIII. 

When mindful how no inconsistency 

Creative plan perplex, man crowding far 
Within the house of Rimmon maze lest jar 

The firm foundation of Philosophy. 

But then recall immovability 

As propositional all else to bar 
Till fabrications universal are 

Bereft of seeming certainty: 

Forced reconcile anotnalous event 

Of two and rival kingdoms claiming earth 
To policy blank opposite in plan 
Remembering how thought is freedom lent 
As image unconstrained from very birth 
By exigency to endower man. 



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XXIX. 

A proposition: prepositional 

To imagery of presence in sense felt 
Of actuality: is ever spelt, 

By consciousness, as abstract actual: 

Persisting unperceived as well, withal. 

As when perceived: an image nothing pelt 
Against without itself is backward dealt 

As if by something quite perpetual: 

Whence seen non-actual relation come 
As mystery unveiled to simulate 
In imagery that actual won't deal: 
And budding thence has blossomed forth till dome 
Of all creation cannot estimate 

Imaginary being that existence steal. 



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XXX. 

Would consciousness to wantonness give pause 
Mankind might hear despite repressing hush 
A voice significant speak in mere gush 

How break and still retake His any laws; 

Hear fountains say, "We leap not for applause 
Who wish to kiss the sun," and then to blush 
And backward fall to where waters flush 

The pools that overflow and oceans cause: 

Who, when with force behind rejoice, till find. 
Resistance greater is before obey, 
And quickly turn to possibility. 
And teach that never any of mankind 
An absolute condition will gainsay. 
And conscious be of mere security. 



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XXXI. 

Within the house of Rimmon, an one ween, 
Is instance of imaginary state, 
Whereon creation's self bid patient wait. 

Displacing actual now to be seen: 

Where vanity in man incites to preen 

Himself awhile the loitering slow gait 
Of evolution seeks an open gate 

In barrier that now from future screen: 

Whereon worldly wisdom so-called might note 
How futile efforts be that abiding none 
But idle break upon eternity. 
That men in finding themselves so remote 
From any useful purpose to be done 
Will turn again to their paternity. 



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XXXII. 

When propositional pre-absolute 

Proud worldly wisdom ignore and affront 
While endless quest according what be wont, 

Though evident beginning is the root 

Whence any end whatever be will shoot, 

It characterize those as blind who shunt 
Themselves thus, from creative plan, and brunt 

Of mere existence bear alike the brute: 

Creative vanity misleading all 

To trust pride's aimless guidance rather than 
Endure humility designed for them 
And choosing thus imaginary thrall 
Become no less imaginary man 

Though seeing not themselves alone condemn, 



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XXXIII. 

As all creation will pause while the man 
Imaginary riots on its bourse, 
Philosophy, as knowledge will, of course, 

Since knowledge only does creative plan. 

As idle stand, with vacant hands, till clan 
Imaginary shall expand by force 
Of inexhaustibleness of its source 

To myth, and life goes on as it began: 

Whence knowledge only be the truth exposed 
And solely truth escapes creative art 
In execution of creator's plan. 
Thence while imaginary learning grows 
As sure attenuation does its part. 
Till, blossomed, fades imaginary man. 



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XXXIV. 

If force sustaining imagery, behight 

Propensity, stay every problem drought, 
What brought confused vitality about; 

Philosophy, for problem has no light. 

Its only gift complete in single sight. 

All imcomplete, is past its finding out, 
Lest it become imaginary lout. 

And darkness prove to be another night: 

Than rhythm absent, where no sensation find 
And fell confusion, imagery has found. 
Spreads over dead persistence like a pall, 
O'er which, alone, light thought, as something blind 
Within what may imagination bound. 
In circling flight flies on without recall. 



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XXXV. 

A propositional abstractional 

Remain, that proposition may include 
An indisputable, as well exclude 

Disputable, in sphere provisional 

To stand immovable conditional. 

Whence comprehension never to conclude 
But ever know what thereto did intrude 

Lest venturing become habitual: 

As in imaginary personage 

Usurp the functionality bestowed 
On creature by a providential hand, 
And rashly venturing themselves engage 

To journey through their lives without a road 
That they can see or guide they can command. 



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XXXVI. 

Abstractional, as propositional, 

Is truth which all mankind perceive who know, 
While being is to seem, condition show: 

In seeming all they will find actual: 

But truth hies far beyond that temporal 
Man, metaphisically, finds where grow, 
Since aught or naught will equally bestow 

The absolute's co-eval principle: 

While truth is evidence condition give 
Condition evidence it to mankind 
As mutually other each define. 
In which is sense, in which is Christ said live. 
And speak in sense in which a man will find. 
Or lose a life as gift, or not, devine. 



-62- 



XXXVII. 

See: chaotic abyss Truth only fill; 

Whence spectral of mere nothingness it chase 

Away; and then imagination face 
To scorn its shameful offering: free will. 
All not true, putting bullish thought to grill, 

For ever may imagination trace, 

And lead through nameless misery the race 
Of man unconscious ever, of truth, still: 

Rescued: so simple is the problem life 
Present in living mortal man, none goad 
Will wait, concerning thing so obvious. 
Since are pride, selfishness, and will found rife, 
Where only can imagination load 
Imaginary creed on curious. 



XXXVIII. 

Bare imagery, perception wist of old, 
Is abstract propositional that man 
Originate, what seem do under ban, 

Consideration force relax, less hold 

An incomplete intentionally bold. 

Dilemma whence, seems any creature can 
Presumptuously its creator's plan 

Exploit, as creature's fancy mind to mold: 

As testify six thousand years or more 
Of lean and gruesome history, it know. 
None philosophically lived or died. 
If ever will while Reason find encore 
For silly jest at any board, let flow, 
That actuality of food deride. 



—64- 



XXXIX. 

In errant imagery vicarious 

Provisional humanity today, 

All consciousness of truth by life delay; 

Excluding rightful being, spurious 

Impersonation wholly curious, 

Usurps its office with complacency 
That nothing will, apparently, dismay; 

Inexplicable as presumptuous: 

Assuming function as a property 
Of all condition that relation place. 
Mere imagery, itself, its self provides 
With simulation of that mystery 

Wherewith, itself, construct its self false-face 
And all creation utterly derides. 



—65— 



XL. 



Philosophy, as knowledge of the truth, 

Within the house of Rimmon cannot bow, 
As Naaman did, preserving scathless brow, 

By reservation; easily, forsooth, 

When any broken, willing only ruth. 

Is simple matter, mending, and endow 
With former state inviolate;— Or now. 

Restore to age its long departed youth: 

But knowledge is to be philosophy; 

Therefore philosophy is ever true 

As even to existence it attain; 

Since knowledge is stress actuality 

Bestow as consciousness; whatever rue, 
A definition that leaves it inane. 



-66- 



XLI. 

It is hard, Paul, to kick against the pricks^ 

And an eternity were all too short, 

Wherewith imagination to consort, 
And fly sight of that absolute affix; 
Were reason else than idle fancy tricks^ 

A boundless curiosity cavort, 

Amusing ever self with self-retort. 
None would ignore plain impress of Physics: 

Whence: Consciousness will find wherewith to be 
Condition actual, and not emprise 
Imagination with a mortal race; 
Whence: What find consciousness of verity, 
''Fools, liars, hypocrites" alone despise, 

And like you, Paul, will grievous make their case. 



—67— 



XLII. 

Wherewith imagination feeds the flock 

That know its voice and faithful follows steps, 
Is question that all knowledge intercepts, 

Less find it pasturage on sterile rock; 

Whence: Consciousness shall some day wake with shock 
To find imagination man accepts 
And hence imagination man adepts 

In life, which should with knowledge interlock: 

That while imagination solecize, 
Far from an actual condition stray 
And conscious cannot be of any state: 
A patent fact that hardly justifies, 
For absolute philosophy, Christ pay 
The only life, yet shown, immaculate. 



—68- 



XLIIL 

While vagrant, parenthetically, speak 

All men to self: "Why spectral purpose haunt 
My life?"— though many petty purpose flaunt 

Before their eyes that win aside the weak 

Attention to a present need;— Or freak 

Of fancy, that disguise as needful want, 
A while may exorcise the spectre gaunt. 

The vision stays, persistent, silent, meek: 

Wherefore: While Huxley's living found to give 
A pother troublesome, most others find 
Delusion is its needful remedy; 
Since all, by putting purpose off, can live 

Their lives in peace, perchance, the onward grind 
Of wheel of time will cease its monody. 



—69- 



XLIV. 

The man abstractional, for knowledge mete, 
Will come; for him philosophy await, 
And him, whom im.agery refuse now state, 

The tables turning will give honored seat, 

Ignoring imagery by simple feat, 

That actual man all perception sate, 
Whose likeness imagery failed imitate 

Since he alone creative purpose meet: 

Imperviousness yet is absolute 

Accretion that persistence give to all, 

As wealth submission earn, and long retain; 
Hence imagery may even long dispute 
An actual's right to be known, withal, 

But time, in spite of fact, will right maintain. 



—70— 



XLV. 

Dependence, actual man, would alone 
Distinguish from an imitation race; 
But mere excluding him from rightful place 

Proclaims a fact that makes creation groan; 

Since absolute condition this disown; 

And wakes to life propensity, that chase 
Creative purpose from the earth, till trace 

Of consciousness of it is nowhere known: 

Now: All mankind both see and know all this. 
And yet pride, selfishness and love of will 
Make them all live as if it were not sure; 
And now: Again, who, or what, fashion bliss 
That these fools, liars, hypocrites love still. 
If ever any length of life procure? 



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XLVI. 

No errant man man-actual shall be 

Within conditions that relation blend, 
Except creative plan in faulting end; 

Withal: Establishing uncertainty, 

Invalidating actuality, 

All knowledge, its self to save, jettisoned 
The phantom ship Creation when freight send 

Adrift on voyage to Nihility: 

Enough Philosophy, detecting drift 
In all pretension to an earthly cult 
Gleans absolute in Actuality; 
And even so: Perception as a gift 
Relation free bestow, sees not result, 
But a creational activity. 



-72— 



XLVir. 

While "abstract," "absolute" and "actual," 
Or words equivalent in speech, assign 
No state sensation ever will devine; 

The terms, and others like, provisional 

Place meekly ask; perchance, sensational 
Insensibility, without design, 
Symbolical-predicament define 

For them, to save a labor critical: 

Departing not, however, by their tact. 
From obvious position held outside 

The language of conventional mankind; 
Where safe as sound in non-semblantic fact 
Perception never-felt awaiting bide 

To lead true creature so it truth will find. 



-73- 



XLVIII. 

Condition disappearing with unseen 

Relation; compound vanishing when to 
Its elements resolved; discernment slow, 

As mere sensibles, to arrive; had been 

Instantly possible as mental scene, 

Perchance, perceptive-trait allowed to show 
Created creatures how create things know 

Without sensation fumbling between: 

Since abstract, which sensation never felt, 
As palpably suborn perceptive-trait, 
As ever object did sensation stress: 
What has sensation in the object spelt 

That simply terming sensed defined as state 
Of knowing that no other shall possess? 



-74- 



XLIX. 

All palpable; oppressive as debris 

Seen scattered over desert plain, content, 
Alone, motionless, grave keeping monument 

Of history^ unknown; humanity. 

As fragments of creative policy 

Long since inoperative and ill spent. 
Is testimony of abandonment 

By an absent unknown divinity: 

Witness: Pride, selfishness and errant will. 
Distrust, uncharitable greed, and care. 

Desire, hope, wonder, fear, man's soul engage; 
While vain imagination over spill, 
No actual makes consciousness aware 
That else than vanity show space or age. 



—75- 



All knowledge is of abstract only cast: 

As physics is the truth behind each ace 
That semblance of condition ever place 

Will shameful-day of prideful-man go past. 

If physical, what is, as is, stand fast: 

Philosophy as knowledge of the case, 
Becoming conscious sight of human race. 

Will knowledge absolute give man at last: 

As semblance only will sensation stress 
Sensation never can the truth proclaim 
Since semblance only be as other seem; 
While only will, the truth, perception bless, 
■ Perception only will for truth light flame 

That brighter, longer, than the sun can beam. 



LI. 



As dark behind made dark before, will light 

Before make light behind, so dawning truth, 
In showing what-is, as is, would uncouth, 

Imaginary fancies put to flight, 

By putting what-is, as is, out of sight. 

One wrote the genesis of doubt, in youth, 
And, baring every bosom thus to ruth, 

All following still follow him through night: 

Whence, genesis of mercy show the age. 

The year, the day, the hour, when darkness fell, 
Displacing light, that was and is man's right. 
beardless youth, whose coming will presage, 
Or this, or that, awake to rightly spell 
What is, as is, and put the night aflight. 



LII. 



In lan^ age of de sive imagery 

Art faith," ' alief," ''persuade," ''convince," "assure," 

And Wo " .v3, that are unable to lure 
Forth manifesting conditionality'; — 
Sensation, hence, insensibility; — 

Which, ever for perception, while demure, 

A measurable quantity procure 
Of the one absolute persistency: 

And were it possible that semblance be 
Unstamped as fabrication of the hand 
Creative of the universal w^hole; 
And, made a human reason possible. 

Still would its predicate as abstract stand 
To shame the sapiency of its role. 



-78- 



LIII. 

One able reasoner saw "knowledge" ran, — 

"Activity of subject;'' and, pardee! 

"A basis of" possible "certainty": 
Alack! Such subject never life began. 
If life according to creative plan 

Receive endowment of activity 

For any useful productivity, 
Presumptive author even dare to scan: 

If breath is wide and deep enough to say, 
"Activity of subject," and survive. 
No wonder logic has its day in court; 
Nor while unit of a compound play 

The truant, even so-called reason strive 
Of serious creation to make sport. 



-79 



LIV. 

New points of view, however, turn about 
Whatever objects reasoners believe 
Unaided reason rightly to perceive; 

And so: Six thousand years to puzzle out, 

That active-subject will all darkness route. 
Require six thousand more to undeceive 
Possessor of the field, the routed leave, 

Perchance, activity, strength from without: 

Since knowledge is activity within 

A subject 'tis, hence; never of the same. 
Less equal two each other trouble gave; 
Not otherwise will certainty be in 
Activity-subjective than as fame 
Of actuation, which may it enslave. 



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LV. 



''Activity of subject": or perceived 
Impersonal: no reasoner reforms, 
While vice of logic still his wit deforms; 

And pride makes, easily as fool, believe 

Imaginary power he receive, 

Which, while as independent action storms, 
Impotency personified, conforms 

To nothing that creative mind conceived: 

Nor ever will: Less fruitless trust in self, 
Include some Babel tower building high, 
Till falling crushes vain reason out of him; 
Or, senseless creature, from mere seeking pelf 
Awaking to the truth before he die. 
Abandons living aimless life of whim. 



-81- 



LVI. 

All tactual sensation make aware 

Aside from vicious reason making free 
With words that bear no taint of imagery, 

To creature, that creation let it share 

In what for purpose sole it chose prepare. 

Whence: Is the whole extent of certainty 
That leaves subjective no activity. 

But properly creation all declare: 

And just as obviously all creatures hear, 
Or see, or feel, or know in any way 
That only which creation shall declare; 
And just as obviously all creatures fear. 
Or care, or want, or any burden may 
In perfect safety let creation bear. 



-82- 



LVII. 

Ere fallacy man's hapless life invade, 

Invention of vain reason bond mankind 
Subjective to else than creative mind, 

And plainly tells that it the race betrayed; — 

Whence fallacious which reason first displayed 
As empty blandishment of pride — all find 
It wholly useless, aimless, stupid, blind, 

Gross, vicious living, that all good evade: 

And many specious propositions brief 
To ever plead enticingly before 
A creature eaten up with vanity; 
Till now philosophy, with helpless grief, 

Sees life mere wreckage amid rush and roar 
Of waters sweeping to non-entity. 



LVIII. 

Unless of absolute intelligent 

Twofold dismay encounters every life; 

First: Less be absolute, is nothing rife; 
And last: Less knowing, never be content: 
Which any seeing ever evident, 

Will ever after understand why strife 

An absolute philosophy must fife, 
If save mankind from deadly argument: 

But never woeful message Christ brought man 
In saying that he must be born again 
To enter heaven's kingdom of the blest: 
Since Heaven is to understand the plan 
That absolute condition will explain 

And new life consciousness of truth attest. 



-84- 



LIX. 

Philosophy today tomorrow may 

Not knowledge be; for each, as twinkle eye, 

Condition else, 'tis sure, is passing by; 
Save one alone that unconditioned stay, 
Beginning not, nor ever pass away; 

Whereof to come, whereto return, imply 

That being only temporal they ply 
Who to condition hold but for a day: 

But not as gloom, dense settled down o'er all. 
Will ever any ending overcast 

All knowledge philosophy command; 
Perception, even as some conscious trawl. 

Lets false escape, while truth still holding fast. 
And haul of truth philosophy will land. 



-85- 



LX. 



Could Life, demurring human creature poise 
As occupying attitude desired, 
If ever, with election, choice expired; 

What more would gain? Thus imagery employs 

A method that creative will destroys; 
And thus to be necessity required 
All gained by freedom discontent inspired. 

Than under a creative plan enjoys: 

Though abstract pose of abstract truth, affright 
A falsehood quicker than will any fact 
Imposter openly can imitate; 
For, lingering hereditary right 

Of abstract in all fact enforce to act, 
Conditions all, as one that hesitate. 



—86— 



LXI. 

Since from relation all condition wake 

And have persistence in existing case, 
Cessation of persistence is by grace, 

Returning any fact, without mistake, 

From whence all came, where to remain, and make 
It possible that abstract hidden race 
Await Relation's pleasure to replace, 

As if again a former state retake: 

A semblance of condition in life pose; 

Alike will abstract being indicate 

Precise phase of a possibility; 

Whence potency of matter will suppose 

An abstract able to re-enter state 

Of sensible conditionality. 



-87- 



LXIL 

If to relation all condition go 

When cease persistence to existence lend, 
And one sole abstract prove begin or end 

Unstable fact that one or any know; 

That universe, or any atom show, 

Can mere deception of sensation mend, 
Orvtrick of fallacy suffice to send, 

Their instability as truth to know: 

While mighty truth is germinal, or would 
Be any terminal of quantity 
Or quality discernible by man; 
Profanity, though never any good 
It bear, excusable when polity 

To substitute with him creative plan. 



—88— 



LXIII. 

All truth with man is germinal: To know 

Is stress of growth in consciousness alone; 
Since letting creature knowing power own, 

Creation, that creative all bestow. 

Would independent other overthrow; 

Hence chaos reign, and order overthrown, 
From all existence even truth has flown, 

Or vanished on condition's ebbing flow: 

But as conditions come and go, so be 

An abstract state imposed, whereof compound 
All quantities that are proportionate; 
Condition, hence, disclose not unity 

Of compound, since relations new, not bound 
Of old, attest that abstract all create. 



—89- 



LXIV. 

No law immense or intricate disclose 
Creation of a universe or part, 
Or particle thereof, or diverse art 

In variation ask two ends to close; 

Beginning of an endlessness impose 

All sameness but to grow, hence, closing art, 
Where two old die if one new live, the start 

Revealed ;— and how creation onward goes: 

But will philosophy be dull indeed, 

Nor see, as all perceive, each closing bound 
Relations, not apart, but present bind. 
Nor matter be, if mystery or speed 
A particle, or universe surround. 

Pervade, or what, if somehow 'tis confined. 



-90— 



LXV. 

Creation of an actual impose 

An abstract possible whose quality 
Is non-create or abstract-unity. 

Hence actual no character expose, 

Of what constituent may it compose, 

And, to increase, or to decrease, will be 
Of combination a sole property. 

And never variation more disclose: 

So even will an abstract state declare 
If actual escape reduction to 
Non-entity or be perpetual 
And either of alternatives prepare 
That further difficulty will accrue 

How nothing to maintain while actual. 



-91- 



LXVI. 

The crucial prepositional before 

Unborn posterity, humanity, 

In order of all being, must deputy 
Send fumbling on into life no more 
Than rightly; no more than abstract score; 

No more than heedless of their ancestry 

Take humbly, despite propensity, 
What may creation have for them in store: 

Depending safely on, so searching out 
Is truth, the bounty of initial some 
To guide, direct, govern all aright; 
So will a being in-apt turn about 

And blossom into fruitage all welcome 

Since understanding come to them by sight. 



-92- 



LXVII. 

No more: Than that he understand by sight 

Is asked of man. This light sheds wisdom old 
Tradition taught when righteous held, though bold 

And bad, those ancient ones who saw aright; 

And ever evolution keep this light, 

Though dimly burning now in mist and cold, 
A gleam where worldly darkness all enfold, 

That still creation lends by day and night: 

Whence: Weighty consequence awaiting stale, 
If ever blindly stepping backward bring 
To goal, that sight-ward going would event, 
While feather weight of reason turn the scale; 
And Harlequin and Columbine still sing 
And dance as if to live were merriment. 



-93- 



LXVIII. 

It pesters not one jot, philosophy 

That temporal comes as' a morning dawn, 

As picture darkness leaves behind when drawn, 

If in relations blent beginning see 

Apostle of the truth, that knowledge be; 
Who cannot for rest, mission ever pawn, 
That bids him ever follow star that v/arn 

Where infant truth is born to deity: 

Whence plain the aptitude of sense must stay 
Proportionate of quantity sense bound 
To satisfy philosophy and all; 
While knowledge pushing only quantity 
Is fact implying quantity is ground. 

Not quality, whence truth will grow, withal. 



-94- 



LXIX. 

A quantity came when Relation blent; 
As empty space to any body yield, 
The unconditioned once gave up a field 

Whereof condition-space is measurement; 

Condition, hence, is unit of extent 

That quantity find ever unconcealed, 
However, or wherever be revealed. 

Itself by absolute made evident: 

And knowledge terminate, and fitly end. 
As consciousness of all, and what, create. 
Nor any form imagination hold; 
For absolute, as abstract, all defend, 
That unconditioned, as deity great, 
Initiate and keep as did unfold. 



-95— 



LXX. 

Philosophy, as quantity, be less 

When knowledge as a quantity be more 

Than quantity, philosophy can score; 
Hence quality less quantity possess. 
Sensation never can put under stress; 

Since semblance of condition cannot store 

Shades protean as quality before 
Proportionate of quantity duress: 

Since semblance of condition unity 
Possess by holding unit under stress, 
As quantity, however, change will stay; 
While quality as mere diversity. 

Stress more or less of quality, more or less 
Enforced, with dying force will melt away. 



-96- 



LXXL 

On pride of earthly creature rests the blame 

That dubious, truth obvious, is made; 

Since serving folly's empty masquerade 
Of only living value robs the fame 
Of the one actual enduring name 

Among all temporal, that naught invade 

In manner whatsoever to degrade, 
Less life itself fly self from very shame: 

As well, as also obvious, as not, 
If given over to supposing vain 

Of earthly bound, inventive, creature's mind; 
Mere hapless failures of haphazzard lot 
Without plan, purpose or design, inane 
As stick or stone, and hopelessly as blind. 



-97— 



LXXII. 

So loth acknowledge he himself to self, 
With is, as is, the whole creative plan, 
And there as merest creature be a man. 

To writhe as disenvironed worm; as elf. 

Or nondescript, to mangle air; than pelf 

Of poor pride yield; had rather he, since can 
Persuade himself he may, than truth to scan 

That make of him a piece of common delf : 

Hence, less himself to self an abstract show, 
Persuade himself no abstract be, though plain 
With pride all wind up in non-entity; 
But is, against not, is enough to know. 
Whence actual, not empty show, maintain 
The cause of truth against profanity. 



-98- 



LXXIII. 

But small appears discordant note of pride 
When in relation mere of quantity 
Creation seen bear opportunity; 

Nay, if could be discretion cast aside, 

Or worBe, its own creation seem deride; 
For entering in of propensity 
To break its score and spoil all harmony. 

And hence admit that reason creatures guide: 

But never will pliilosophy why ask, 
And never will philosophy see hence 
Since sheer correlation of mere to be; 
What knowledge show philosophy will task. 
But: Neither ever even make pretence 
To probe perversion or a mystery. 



-99- 



LXXIV. 

Relation mere of quantity compel 

Perception semblance of a semblance note 
As if condition of condition mote 

The mystery of quantity dispel 

By history of quality it tell; 

Or mystery nearby prove antidote 
For mystery, still hidden and remote, 

In what primeval darkness all befell: 

Nor only mystery one more thereby 

The burden living creature bear increase; 
Since quality, insatiable, demand 

Its choice ere even creature venture try, 

Or trust the mocking forms its sight release, 

Or want forbid it even to withstand. 
LofC. 



—100— 



LXXV. 

Less be existence that condition wake 

Frail structures that relation may recall, 
A potency of mystery bids all 

Relation mere of quantity forsake 

Not willfully a quantity it make; 

Wherein: Enslaved and impotent befall 
That creature-will bid come and go, withal, 

As if an earthly bondage never break: 

Wherein: A ghastly mockery will lurk 

If semblance of obedience persuade 

A man himself a potency display. 

Wherein: Perception even find a work, 

Less overlooking mockery degrade 

Its sight, till falsehood easily betray. 



-101- 



LXXVI. 

As quality: Let stand relation mere 

Of quality as object to which be 

As subject you or I, philosophy 
Thereon awaiting result to appear, 
Which abstract has long since, ere ever hear 

The proposition, unmistakably 

Perceived and put aside unerringly 
To fill its proper place in proper sphere: 

In turn as precisely mark even we 
A quality where naught become a lot, 
If other one become as none the nonce; 
For object find a subject verily 

As subject find an object with no plot 

Or purpose than each other soundly trounce. 



-102— 



LXXVII. 

"As distance lends enchantment to a view," 
Will distance great or small unlike relate 
The object and the subject, both innate, 

Though change the scene; so quality as true 

Retain condition abstract naught undo 

When objective with subjective is mate, 
In manner neither ever indicate, 

Though manifest relation of the two: 

And all activity initiate 

As thence; and likewise semblance issue forth 
Since impulse sole within continuous; 
And hence stability will intimate 

That unity must certainly bear worth, 
Since all acknowledge it imperious. 



-103- 



LXXVIII. 

Since single never manifested to sense, 
In language only will the term attain 
Provisional import that aught sustain; 

All "objects" and all "subjects" compounds, hence, 

Ere ever unit-playing they commence; 

Relation staying only whence it strain 
Condition never any unit gain 

That unto other ever evidence: 

Hence license of a language will confound 
All contemplation of creation made 

By man through stretching ages wearisome; 
And ever safe to say that no profound 
Realisation of condition grade 

The thought that unity assumes the sum. 



—104- 



LXXIX. 

While unity: Sensation seeming trace 

Make all humanity sensation blind ; 

Perception: Leaves the truth undefined; 
Awaiting evolution of a race 
That actual condition truly face 

Ere functioning, as once for all designed, 

As faculty unerringly to find 
The single pathway to creative grace: 

And never wishing, praying, preaching, nor 
Supposing or assuming hide man's shame, 
That all perceive except himself alone, 
Who absolute condition will abhor 

Because it simply must deny him fame 

That granted would break creature's own backbone. 



-105- 



LXXX. 

Did unity come: Consequences sly- 
Remote and various enough would shame 
The sorry jest sensation make its name; 

Itself made consequent, but multiply 

The mystery sensation vainly fly; 

Nor clearer yet disclose whence being came, 
Nor plainer show whither be going same. 

Than absolute condition signify: 

In unconditioned knowledge may begin. 
As unity indefinite allow. 
Infinite subdivision easily; 
Whereas: It, calling, unity find in 

Will knowledge haste to make departing bow 
To visit betters of known-unity. 



106- 



LXXXI. 

While actual to know mark knowledge act, 

Condition of an actuality 

Like operation of a faculty 
Remains as seeming uninvolved fact, 
Which habit of assuming leaves intact 

Till fail perception stress, till quietly 

Fades into unconditionality, 
And baseless thence assumption thrives; alack: 

And hence, persistence of condition made 
Once manifest defines the time and scope 
Of knowledge that can be of any use; ' 
yince knowledge of condition not afraid 
To stake the source of all with all the rope 
It need, less do itself unkind abuse. 



—107— 



LXXXIL 

While actual not known mark abstract fact, 

Since actual retain consistency' 

Persistence of conditionality 
Impose on all formation while intact; 
Hence functionality alone seen act, 

Mark knowledge sharing mutability 

That characterize functionality 
Of unity that never any track: 

Wherefore: Must knowledge, even other grade 
Of fact than actual-arrayed, accept 
As propositionally proven proof; 
' Thence: As if actual dethroned, parade 
Reduction to an abstract as concept 

That mark all fact when seen in tender youth. 



-108- 



LXXXIII. 

Aye, tantamount to time of tender youth, 
Perception's failure to perceive defeat 
Man's longing for a knowledge all complete; 

When dull philosophy suppose, forsooth, 

Asleep the while in somewhat handy booth 
Allows important man consider feat 
He next attempt to finish quite as neat 

As drawing time's one stump of gnawing tooth: 

As merrymakers may behind the scene 

Conduct themselves unknown in manner list 
While lookerson await their coming jest; 
Perception saw and knowledge holds, has been 
And is, may see; and yet to be insist 
On privacy till duly manifest. 



-109- 



LXXXIV. 

As to abstraction all perception lead, 

And never will sensation truth invade, 
And every condition come as made; 

Relation writes mankind the only creed, 

If any living willingly will heed, 

In script of consciousness that never fade, 
Since evolutionized race it persuade 

Creative grace suffice for all its need : 

In one and lonely truth whereof consists 
Philosophy, or knowledge, or perceived. 
If either, or all, shall contain what sought. 
Bare consciousness whereof mankind enlists. 
Nor any other serving them relieved, 
Creation doing all that shall be wrought. 



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LXXXV. 

As true to truth what is, not other be, 

Lest false be truth and either be as none 
And nondescript sole inning had begun. 

Not speech, but quantity speaks really, 

Each volume owning volubility; 

Creation, hence, all or none, if all one 
And doing all if anything be done. 

And knowing this is true philosophy: 

Not fancy, mystery or history. 

Nor any teacher, preacher, man or saint 
Avail a being lacking consciousness 
Of the condition under which it be; 

Whereof must each himself a picture paint 
Just as condition him thereto shall stress. 



Ill 



LXXXVI. 

Condition manifesting mystery 

To consciousness, itself the while makes clear 
As lying wholly in a mortal's sphere; 

Whence asking no impossibility 

That man shall know conditionality; 

And greatly ease his own position ere 
A habit of dependence cast out fear 

And conscious creature wholly trust deity: 

Great knowledge glow! Perception all agog! 
And gorgeous philosophy astride! 

While simple truth, a childhood's toy, is lost. 
A single needle haystack-fancy clog, 

While garments wearing with rents gaping wide 
A stitch or two would mend at little cost. 



112- 



LXXXVII. 

Aghast as blank with civilization stare 

When falling scale from self -admiring eyes 
Disclose to sight that only truth still hies 

About appointed work, without a care 

How vanity of vanities may fare, 

Or how its reason scorns such enterprise, 
As only colors such as fancy plies 

Will paint the critic's picture of despair: 

Were knowledge lowly and perception less 
And still philosophy beneath the two, 

Perchance, the truth would not evade man so. 
Where one is all none other can profess 
The doing that that one can only do. 
Yet reason reasons it away will show. 



-113- 



LXXXVIII. 

As Christ is Truth, to man his kingdom stands 
Still firmer than conceivable of rock 
If that withstand untottering a shock 

That other fabrications quite disbands. 

To be or not, the whole of thought commands 
And either standing will all other block, 
And thence can never question be to mock 

The simple sight that consciousness demands: 

Not deity, but greater than a god, 

Since undefined remains beyond confines 
That be, however great, still less than all. 
How be one and speak of, or to, a clod? 
As impudent stupidity defines 
A civilized humanity, withal. 



—114- 



LXXXIX. 

Aye, civilization tried as other scheme 

Time and again have been and wanting found, 
Will after while begin to crumble down, 

And living man have dreamt another dream; 

Belike creation jealous guards to seem 

Whereof it pleased condition only sound, 
Since else than manifestation would astound 

And not enlighten finite of a supreme: 

And any scheme humanity advise 
Itself about no justification find 

In face of fact creation stand or fall 
On adequacy for the enterprise, 

Humanity attempts, while conscious blind. 
Itself direct: For ends of self, withal. 



—115— 



xc. 



If man a part somehow become supreme, 

Of course, a new creation then would be. 
Perception new and new philosophy, 

Then sentiment condition only beam 

And poets pleasing fancy fitting gleam. 
But never prosy fact have entity, 
Though all go on somehow contentedly. 

Unlike, indeed, discarded older scheme: 

Then ho! for world inventive man prepare. 
Where vanity bids vanity welcome 

And Time itself must lend to mockery; 
When heroes find that plenty zeroes stare 
And smallest learn that smaller yet become, 
If cease to bear a part in mummery. 



-116- 



XCI. 

Alas, supposing over-much has won 

A grist slow turning evolution grind, 
And never justification creature find 

For wandering from light of burning sun 

Of truth that ever on appointed course run, 

To light the day wherein mere mortals blind 
By night can see their way to rightly wind 

The maze of life till length of time be done: 

Creation one and life a part define 
The single opportunity and scope 
Of being any living life embrace; 
And clear that fact of being will confine 
Its occupation, strictly barring hope. 

To course and end creative purpose trace. 



■117- 



XCII. 

Both supposition and assumption blast 
The expectation either would inspire 
Before set forth to satisfy desire 

By willingness to venture being tasked; 

While absolute condition gives ere asked 
All to which any creature can aspire, 
Or seeing rightly even will admire, 

And all that ever having may hold fast: 

Whence: Condemnation come upon the world. 
That absolute condition is rejected 
And wide imagination to explore; 
Philosophy has no black flag unfurled, 
Nor battles for elated or dejected, 
But seeing blinded ever must deplore. 



—118- 



XCIII. 

Explore imagination is the fact 

Wherein fool, liar, hypocrite command 
Alike imaginary feature stand 

And for a possible creation act: 

Thence follows it, Dogberry hath the tact 

Not write himself down ass with his own hand, 
Though all intelligence thereby disband 

As endless dreary mummery exact: 

The worm responsive turns when trod upon, 
But self-esteeming man complacently 
Allows the truth to crush him every day: 
A bladder full of air bursts when trod on. 
But mere inflation of thin vanity 

No known force ever seen to put away. 



-119 



XCIV. 

As manifestation being puts aside 

All questions and appears, beyond dispute, 
As act creative of an absolute; 

Hence: Supposition idle stay beside 

Array of semblance universal wide; 

And hence: Hume, Berkeley, Hegel, Kant stand mute, 
Eke ilk while phantom truth their wits compute 

As wanting semblance even to deride: 

And were all manifestation emptiness. 
How easily in imagination ride — 

As witches hie on broomstick horse by night- 
Mankind post haste on purposeless express. 
Ho! helter-skelter, hurry-scurry wide. 
For holy city never any sight. 



—120- 



xcv. 

As semblance only manifestation pose: 
That absolute inviolate remain 
Though act creative shall begin to reign; 

And truth commensurate therewith compose 

That knowledge of condition will disclose; 
And being, such as living know, attain 
Without establishing exhaustive drain 

That would at length to want the whole expose: 

And many other linkings evident 
In chain of a nonsensical because: 
To blind where absolute is unity! 
And what a deal of trouble would be sent 
To limbo did mortality "give pause," 
Ere lightly they suppose philosophy. 



-121- 



XCVI. 

The vice imagination lends to thought 

Betray mankind to seek explaining cause, 
While consciousness of truth exact applause 

For ordination that once for all wrought; 

And unity, evading as if naught, 

Still stress conclusions any thinking draws. 
And mind with merest stupefaction awes, 

Without in any case explaining aught: 

As any act in reason to suppose. 

The wonder is how ever came the thought 
To speculate on rather than to take, 
A being that in being but a close 

Put out of .sight what ever had it brought 
Less older never let the new awake. 



—122- 



XCVIL 

As mortal father mortal son prolong: 

So absolute now is, as heretofore, 

And change may seem to be, but nothing more; 
Whence: All temporal seeming only strong, 
While absolute please semblance do no wrong; 

Be day, or all eternity, the score 

An atom, or creation, languish o'er 
As fancy of an absolute they throng: 

But now: From fancy other fancies grow. 
Till absolute shall find, if not discern. 

That who adventure will must fortune rue; 
Whence how: At last a world is here that show 
That mortal fancy can all limit spurn, 
And mere creative fancy far outdo. 



-123- 



XCVIII. 

"Lead, kindly light," is well; "Lead thou me on" 
Is not: 'tis not well to have gratified 
Embodied fancy of mere earthly pride. 

Instead of man of true creative brawn; 

However be deformed, or wobegone. 

He even be. For self-pride, to find guide 
In man's creator, will wholly deride 

What man's eventuation holds in pawn: 

The hymn that here betrays humanity 
Is barring singer's quite unconscious vice 
Of pride, as sentiment, confessed sublime. 
And in exposing personality 

More obviously chimes the right advice, 
If justly any creature dauntless climb. 



—124- 



XCIX. 

Ah when: What, never? So!— Yes, brother, yes. 
Yes, even so; reflecting pause, but clock 
Was never set to chime the hour when shock 

Of truth will mortal sense beset; while stress 

Of fancy and propensity him press. 
Is man immovable as any rock. 
Insensible as adamant 'gainst knock; — 

But after while to Christ will all confess: 

Slow evolution after while will soothe 
Propensity; and stress of fancy lead 
To end of vanity in some far time; 
But today, and they will hear him, all smooth, 

And straight, and light, and bright the path to speed 
Impersonal man from earth's sloughing grime. 



-125— 



Mankind impersonal with absolute 

As personal, so to speak, comprise 

Idea that from its lair will truth surprise 

And render mortal consciousness astute; 

While comprehensive of all attribute. 

Reciprocal, that either must apprise. 
If they together ever realize, 

Creator or created ere evolute: 

For clear, when may or may not be, the rule 
Arise invoked by present absolute. 
Compulsory in either case alike, 
Adjustment that may seem enforcement fool; 
But actiilg only as a substitute, 
Impersonality need not strike pike. 



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CI. 



Philosophy and knowledge testify 

They know of absolute beyond their reach 
By silence that expresses more than speech; 

Moreover unconditioned specify 

As mystery that ever will defy 

The utmost effort, possible to each, 
To go behind persistency they teach 

All sensitive existing-entity: 

As unconditioned, hence, infiltrate all. 
Without crystalization manifest. 
Dispersion is the whole of mystery; 
Attenuation properly, withal, 

Semblantic manifestation repossess; 
And all sensation notes is vacancy. 



-121 



CII. 



To know is not to sense; reduction to 

Sensation; consciousness, complex of stress 
And sense, Relation as condition dress 

And knowledge thus, alone, may come and go: 

In aggregation consciousness will show 
The character of semblance in duress. 
And hence: Intelligent and fool address 

Alike creative purpose ere it know: 

The field imagination sowed with tares 
Shows aggregated fools predominate. 
But after while another crop will grow. 
When all imagination's crop of cares 
Kind harvesting of time eradicate, 

And consciousness of truth be all men know. 



-128- 



CIII. 

When knowledge and philosophy disclaim 

To know or teach the absolute the stress 
Of unconditioned thereby they confess; 

Like other being neither called the game, 

To be, or not to be, but found it came; 

Wherefore existence only they possess 
When will a power absolute express 

What either show but neither give a name : 

Yet signify that being only be 
Where unconditionality the form 
Of some conditionality will show; 
Or, if will any prefer so to see, 

The case imports persistent potent norm 
That will formation endlessly bestow. 



—129- 



CIV. 

With father in a heaven need mankind, 

"As pants the hart for water brook," athirst, 
Place knowing of immensity as first; 

Need ever discontent of shallow mind 

All sallow overcast whatever find? 

Yet: Wisdom doth account him as accurst, 
With never aiding hand his bonds to burst, 

If having sight exploit a life as blind: 

Him: Danger of supposing should appall; 
Him: Futile should imagination see; 
Shall yet the vice mankind forever soil? 
What is, as is, is all;— and thereto fall. 
With tooth and nail, and never once let be 
Till all, as consciousness, each one uncoil. 



—130— 



cv. 



Mere hanging spirit out for pecking daws, 

While man's absurd inventions only found 
Where should persistence of condition sound; 

The water brook might pass; but, wonder pause. 

Where found mankind supposing ever cause 
Of an imaginary man; compound 
Of willful freedom, reason and the ground, 

Awaiting ever man with open jaws: 

And never knowledge, or philosophy. 
Would difficulty find could reason not 
Inventions of its own insist upon; 
Inflating all mankind with vanity 

Till self -pride only leads the sorry lot 
Whither imagination lures it on. 



—131- 



CVI. 

Were sentiment allowed philosophy, 

A sure philosopher could only swear 
Till paled the blue empyreal up there 

At wantonness of man's calamity. 

And then redouble his profanity 
To find imagination even dare 
To show its face abroad in open air, 

Where should appear a true Humanity: 

Alas, but sentiment of even poor 
Profanity must wholly vanish while 
Creation of imagination stay. 
Yet, evolution endless time explore, 
And sure imagination's fate on file 
To find ere final closing of its day. 



-132— 



CVII. 

Where absolute within condition dwell 
Persistence of condition, mystery 
Disdaining, audibly the history 

Of absolute declaims, preserving well 

The golden legend of creative spell, 

Which as all knowledge is philosophy, 
Perchance, persuade man from adversity 

To absolute condition whereof tell: 

And from the scene imagination fly, 

' As some long uncomfortable night's dream 

Awaking happily has sent away; 
And with it artful erudition hie 

That baseless reason wanting even theme 

No longer on man's wits a tattoo play. 



-133- 



CVIII. 

All be, or not; hence absolute or naught; 

The task for being set awaits reply, 

And each Benzonian must speak or die; 
So simply subtle all semblantic wrought, 
That vanish quite if only option sought; 

Seem actual, imaginary fly. 

Whence: Even in the twinkle of an eye, 
The living live, the living die, so fraught: 

Where life is purpose of creative will, 

Whence failing purpose semblance will be none. 
Less dreams to pester Hamlet's dead, perchance; 
And death, where no creative purpose fill. 
Less idle lagging of formation one, 

Or sleeping Hamlets still onward advance. 



—134— 



CIX. 



Though plain as pike staff ever truth be seen 
O'er human thought, since Thales till to-day 
Impossiblest fancy has held sway, 

And never field has sown whence knowledge glean; 

Example: Huxley nihil bonum screen; 

How: Medley of mere swish-swash of byplay, 
The human understanding steal away 

From seeing what creation might have been: 

Let every scientist pause, for a law 
Of all creation doth him dominate; 

Whence truth, save hypocracy, naught obscure; 
Let chemist but admit the well known flaw 
In his process to duly lend its weight, 
And never more, as chemist, be he sure. 



-135- 



cx. 



As absolute condition should appear 

Self evident truth ever self display 

And never suffer argument array; 
Indeed, from voice of reason flies in fear, 
Since heeding seeming question would uprear; 

As consciousness created can only stay 

Where actual put imagery away, 
And worldly kingdom hence came never near: 

Where vanity of speculation call 

Down darkness deeper, gloomier, than night. 
As condemnation on ignoring truth; 
Whereof a saying even goes, withal, 

"That man loves darkness rather than the light," 
On aptly classing him as fool, forsooth. 



-136- 



CXL 

If conflict seem within creation range, 
A temporal must situation view 
As order that the actual pursue; 

Not suffer momentary phase to gage 

Eventuation of a stretching age; 

For sure humanity some day will sue 
For approbation become justly due, 

Ere history shall close its final page: 

But still philosophy and knowledge fret 
Without avail to see the ''Much Ado 
About Nothing" that mortal being raise; 
In minding matters they in nowise beget 
That go themselves, as easy as an old shoe, 
Alone, when only they obey and praise. 



-137- 



CXII. 

Save absolute condition indurate, 

Is knowledge possible, and also no 
Cohesion of proportion be to show; 

All language babbles nothing, soon or late, 

However self-pride of men sayings rate; 

All's hoisted by its own petard, not slow, 
If try ideal of idea blow 

From any bubble fancy free inflate: 

To fill a physical sensation need 
A physical to be, while neither can 
Less absolute condition ever be; 
Mere consciousness, unwittingly, hence heed 
Where stress of absolute condition scan. 
No other presence than consistency. 



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CXIII. 

Creation absolute by absolute 

Of absolute for absolute imply 

What self-pride primes mere mortals to deny; 
Nor other fluting for its fluting flute, 
But idle tooting idle fancy toot 

That never any being satisfy 

But leaves all hungering, without supply 
Of peace that life itself should constitute: 

But never can till come within the bounds 
Of possibility that will exclude 

The proud or selfish man's propensity; 
That absolute on reason's baseless grounds 
Displace without a herald or prelude, 

That mortal pride may wear complacency. 



-139- 



CXIV. 

But what about it all concerns no man, 

For written with clear circumspection: ''Judge 

You not less you be judged," but less a grudge 
Against philosophy await to ban; 
Philosophy explains the case as can; 

Whence: Folly for a part the whole to nudge 

If one community can ever budge, 
Till change the order of existing plan: 

And in for penny even in for pound, 
Philosophy may further saying state 
Perception cannot judgment signify. 
Indeed, Philosophy case never found 
Where mortal judgment any estimate, 
Since absolute time and space occupy. 



-140- 



cxv. 

"Fools, liars, hypocrites." . . . Since pride of self 
Christ saw had led dependent organism 
Till vastness, casting off as phlegm, 

Let mortal being go on seeking pelf. 

Whence scientist, as even cunning elf, 
Can start man along as protoplasm 
To end at length before a yawning chasm^ 

Less deftly puts the question on the shelf: 

Since reason like will also him endow. 

The lowly, gladly maybe, will perceive,. 

Fool, liar, hypocrite class scientist. 

If church, or state, or mart mankind allow^ 

Their fruits at length the lowly undeceive 

And absolute philosophy give rest. 



—141- 



CXVI. 

And lo, the poets come, hence knowledge fly; 

The throes of chaos suffered thence for naught; 

All order, labor long enduring, wrought. 
Mythology and Jewish history, 
The Chinese ever biding mystery. 

E'en absolute that other being sought 

In vain till semblance of contentment brought, 
All are by poets imagery laid by : 

Stern was, grim is, and trembling to be, 
All fly away before a fancy's breath 
As very chaff withstanding hurricane. 
For what this tempest in a teapot see? 
For any earthly thing weave laurel wreath, 
If after all the storms but peace again. 



-142- 



CXVII. 

A waste imagination will explore 

To find a desert-haunting, brooding sphinx 
That past and future meaninglessly links 

In endless chain of silence ever more. 

As well: If idle fancy's picture bore 

Mankind, in form of preying, hungry lynx, 

That through an endless darkness prowling slinks 

Intent as happy seeking ever gore: 

Still passing strange, intelligence that see 
That two and two are four will freely leave 
The absolute that is for baseless dream. 
Can vanity become propensity 

So fixed that consciousness but seem deceive 
While truth alone reside in earthly scheme? 



—148- 



CXVIII. 

The fool can say, as well as not, there's naught, 
But liar himself cannot yet deceive, 
The hypocrite alone that feat achieve 

When into one are fool and liar wrought. 

But still imagination, nor word, brought 
The hypocrite a meaning that reprieve 
From absolute investment they receive, 

When semblance of formation being taught: 

Whence all civilization vainly boast, 
While hapless pining only man employ 
For lacking consciousness of simple truth; 
In foolish lying hypocrisy lost. 

The church, the state and mart alike decoy 
Man's vanity with never thought of ruth. 



-144- 



CXIX. 

Not absolute creation wide has spread; 
But: A mere moment, or a particle 
Imagination make; an article 

Of pharmacy, whereof, as might be said. 

Take you so much of this ere go to bed, 
To dose all consciousness; hysterical 
With fear less medicine empirical 

That fact with fancy treacherously wed: 

Nor absolute imagination wake 

To find that willful being somehow be 
Of any fashion reason may decide. 
Woe unto reasoners, saw he that spake 
Philosophy that never learning see. 
Nor any mortal effort man provide. 



-145— 



cxx. 

All propositions absolute begin 

That ever absolute solution end; 

To be or not, as any wish contend, 
But ever choice involved solution win. 
Philosophy no open question din. 

Nor knowledge ever vision will amend, 

And learning hence incontinently wend 
To imagery man's reason flounder in: 

A Christ spoke true philosophy untaught. 

Whom taint of earthly learning never touched 
Or hope of man were now as never one; 
A proposition quite within terms brought 
Of absolute solution herein vouched, 
That propositions only answer won. 



-146- 



CXXI. 

And: "Thou shalt have no other god but me" 
Rolls meaninglessly over every tongue 
While sheer imagination binds the throng 

To see as wont and not as ever be; 

Since anthropomorphic as with irony 
Explains the scientific matter long 
That trained unconscious parrots caw among 

A concourse stupefied with vanity: 

But: "Marvel not that I say unto you: 
Ye must be born again," we will suppose 
Is not hence anthropomorphically meant. 
But never anything so very true 
As birth imagination doth impose 
On all of human being now extant. 



-147- 



CXXII. 

The deed betoken consciousness, or none; 
A world once conscious of philosophy 
Like Christ's, whence simple Christianity, 

As water, gravity obeying, run; 

While act of any, not a conscious one, 
Is merely following propensity 
Importing neither source or destiny; 

The fruit of imagery, and not of sun: 

In vagary of imagery man's will 

Is commonly supposed from habit not 
Outworn to have monition of its own; 
Wherewith those lacking consciousness can fill 
To their self-satisfaction empty spot, 
And feel as full as any overflown. 



148- 



CXXIII. 

As absolute condition man embrace 

A voice still crying in a wilderness 

Repeats: ''Repent and take a consciousness," 

And thus philosophy entreats his race. 

And till they hear and will perceive their case 
Is under mere imaginary stress 
No end can ever be to their distress, 

Nor hope, himself, and maker cease disgrace: 

And absolute condition will enforce 

That consciousness be knowledge, nor admit 
An affectation of mere faith instead; 
Unconscious, not alternative in course 
That absolute condition can permit. 

Hence the unknowing as now be as dead. 



-149— 



CXXIV. 

For what: Suppose imaginary state 

Less can delusion consciousness disdain; 

Or yet, unconsciousness will thought restrain 
That would infatuation estimate. 
For what: Exchange sheer knowledge for mere fate, 

When self-importance any ever gain 

Is stark impossibility to feign 
That actual condition dissipate: 

And still for what: Shall self-importance stand 
If sure no actuality will share 
With it profusion of complacency. 
But still, behold: Mankind are rather grand, 
And absolute condition loth to wear 
Without it gratified their vanity. 



-150- 



cxxv. 

A consciousness of terms, whereof to be, 
Will shame imagination off the earth 
And leave a simple being to have birth 

And fix foundation of philosophy. 

A shadow of a cloud in autumn's day 
Is absolute, as all of any worth, 
And all imagination's wealth of dearth 

Defames in momentary entity: 

A simple atom, semblance though at best. 
Sustained by absolute disposing might, 
Is something true, and fancy only naught. 
Come unto me and I will give you rest. 

Said Christ, who knew whereof he spoke by sight. 
And truth of all philosophy men taught. 



151- 



CXXVI. 

Come unto me and I will give you rest, 
Says actual to all sensational, 
That undertake to feel, what be it all; 

Whose ceaseless pushing will forever pest. 

Come unto me and I will give you jest. 
It hears imagination also call, 
And doing naught less wearisome, withal. 

Thus touches button that ''does all the rest:" 

Aladdin's lamp with childhood goes away 
But worldly kingdom touch awoke still stand 
While age on age of manhood rise and fade 
Creation naught, and being without day, 
While all imagination choose command. 
Without demur obedient parade. 



-152— 



CXXVIL 

The truth, as proposition, once aside 

Let monstrous fancy wantonly uprear 
Till history of the human race appear, 

And mortal man's intelligence deride; 

And thus to stand: Till Christ, who first applied: 
**Fools, liars, hypocrites" to them, they hear. 
And save slow evolution task so drear 

As sheer enforcing consciousness betide: 

Since conscious being, conscious that it be. 
It follows that it conscious will be, too, 
That absolute condition actuate 
Its undertakings, knowing certainty 
As gradually it unfolds, is true. 
Enduring occupation of its state. 



—153- 



CXXVIII. 

Fool, liar, hypocrite, the Christ address 

To man who dare pretend truth can't perceive, 
While pride and selfishness with ease deceive 

To sell his birth-right for a pottage mess; 

Yet absolute philosophy assess 

Mankind as still potential to achieve 
A worthy end if only they receive 

From absolute condition conscious stress: 

From whence come all created entity; 
If from relation that originate, 
Or evolution that continue, is one; 
Since absolute condition only be 
So being, whatsoever be its state, 
And mere imaginary case be none. 



-154- 



CXXIX. 

As absolute philosophy implies 

Intelligence of conscious being, it 
Implies that such intelligence be fit 

An implication true, and hence assize 

Intelligence that only shall arise 

In consciousness of absolute, to-wit: 
Exclude the liar, fool and hypocrite; 

Whence: Christ's denunciation no surprise: 

But: Nevertheless such philosophy 
Fact of denunciation announces not; 
Nor can intelligence become aware 
Of what denunciation may imply; 

Whence: Cross each t as well as each i dot, 
Less knowledge all shall vanish into air. 



-155- 



cxxx. 

Length absolute philosophy will go 
May actual condition bare explore 
So-much and nothing whatsoever more; 

Created its self, creation only know, 

Creation knowledge so much hence bestow; 

So-much, or nothing, consciousness may store, 
Take, measure sense as well, or want deplore; 

So-much all life seem hazzards on the throw: 

Man's consciousness with other semblance show 
Unseen relation, absolute in sphere 
That rule, no fugitiveness manifest; 
Which absolute philosophy make known. 
In postulate of power to appear 
Or disappear formation oft attest. 



-156- 



CXXXI. 

While baseless reason that inventive want 
Of wild desire to reach beyond its state 
Supplied mankind, persuade they dominate, 

Somewhat, the scene existence merely haunt; 

So long will absolute truth in vain flaunt 

Before man's eyes the one and single fate 
That only can his longing satiate, 

And vagary triumph ever vaunt: 

Whence fool on color argue as if were 
An abstract thing and, Tyndall-like, ignore 
The only abstract possible to be; 
Or, broadly, man pretend without a fear 
To put behind himself what lay before 
His eyes and blindly search non-entity. 



-157 



CXXXII. 

To postulate the unconditioned case 

From the conditioned will young truth awake 
That once aroused will mortals not forsake; 

Self-evident all evidence embrace 

And question never more mankind disgrace; 
Nor pretence postulate courageous fake 
To war against and into fragments break 

Each state of consciousness creation place: 

To postulate the truth yet never need, 
As absolute ere any scrutiny 

Will draw all roads to self, as Rome once did; 
And save to be, or not, attends its speed, 
Will ever absolute philosophy 
Await the sanction any ever bid. 



-158- 



CXXXIII. 

To be, or not to be, nor question what 
Shall pester ever being manifest 
By form of unconditioned one's unrest; 

And absolute philosophy speak not 

To questions that mere vanity besot, 

Like those wherewith man meaninglessly jest, 
Or haunting imagery that Hamlets pest 

But ever what, and never less, it wot: 

And yet, and yet; how characterize the scene 
No fond recollection presents to view 
Of horror hallowed human life display. 
In world as imagery will have it seen, 
When heaven's kingdom on earth undo, 
And silence absolute philosophy. 



-159— 



CXXXIV. 

"Seek ye the kingdom which is heaven first 

"And all things shall be added unto you," 

Puts absolute philosophy askew; 
Since: Absolute will be asunder burst 
When creature freedom finds to do as durst; 

Since: Christ's philosophy scarce trickles through 

Man's vanity with any meaning true, 
In testament his imagery rehearsed: 

That still sets forth essential truth of life, 
Since makes its single opportunity 
Conformity with a creative plan; 
That needless make the care and toil and strife, 
Self-pride and selfishness wring ruthlessly 
From generations of deluded man. 



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cxxxv. 

In absolute philosophy: to seek, 

To wish, to ask, to do, is vanity 
Immeasurable as all imagery; 

Whereof, as being not, it nothing spake; 

''Take no heed of tomorrow" is the beak 
That tears the vitals of humanity, 
Fast bound on barren rock profanity, 

The victim of imagination's freak: 

Imagination turns on what it breed 
As appetite stay limitless its food 
At length can only find in progeny; 
And human vanity shall prove the creed, 
When vain experience exhausts the mood 
To live on nothing but apology. 



161— 



CXXXVI. 

But: Being only is the habit of 

A disposition since aught will persist 
If naught be able to ask it to desist; 

Hence hope of all humanity is love. 

Not: Forbid it, Almighty God above, 

In form fools, liars, hypocrites attest. 
While they unwholesomely the earth infest, 

But disposition wholly truthward hove: 

Where hope is merely possibility. 

That baseless reason will at length yield man 
To inclination consciousness shall guide; 
And disposition actuality 

That has escaped imagination's plan 
Of boundless devastation to abide. 



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CXXXVII. 

Biit marvel not that I say unto you: 

Ye must be born again, was also said 
To man whom imagery had so long led, 

Whence, if to be, he must be made anew. 

Hence: Absolute philosophy will view 

Unconscious being as one that is dead, 
And absolute creation bow its head 

When else than semblance it condition true: 

While wisdom found in Christ an open speech. 
An absolute philosophy is dumb, 

Since absolute condition does but act; 
All consciousness therefore mankind will reach 
As other being into being come 
And ever mutual concurrence lack. 



-163- 



CXXXVIII. 

Blessed are the meek, said Christ, for they the earth 

Inherit shall; and correspondingly 

Is fact of absolute philosophy 
That consciousness of truth make life of worth; 
While pride and selfishness, receiving birth 

Of casual spasmodic imagery, 

Are not created actuality, 
But passing shadows of an earthly mirth: 

Which one, by taking thought, to stature can 
One cubit add, He asked when wishing teach 
That all receive who anything possess. 
And made dependent by creative plan 
On what he may receive, it follows, each : 
Is creature of dependence he confess. 



-164- 



CXXXIX. 

Be still, Mirth; ''Blessed are the meek." — Be meek; 
Till billows never wreckage strand ashore, 
Nor Babel towers crumbling deplore. 

Await inheritance you cannot seek; 

So absolute philosophy hear speak, 

Though billows heaving wreckage as before 
And Babel towers crumbling fall o'er, . 

Still mighty absolute upholds the weak: 

'Tis meek to be the greatest thing on earth, 
A being wholly conscious of its state 
As part of absolute reality; 
'Tis proud to be the smallest sight engirth, 
A creature impudently roving fate 
Unconscious of its wanton vanity. 



-165- 



CXL. 

Blessed are the low in spirit, also said 

The Christ to man, whom strange propensity 
Of pride turned from created entity 

To shapes imagination only shed; 

If ever being voice of Christ had led, 
Today would witness not humanity, 
The idle plaything of mere imagery. 

Unconscious, aimless, full of fear and dread: 

And absolute philosophy rejoice 

To hear on earth a tongue that truly speak 
Its meaning clear to living creature there; 
But short its joy, indeed; soon finding voice 
Is into silence seeking, far too weak 
To rout bold imagery from earthly lair. 



—166- 



CXLI. 

Since actual condition constitute 

Precise philosophy that can prevail, 

And Christ affirms both it and what entail, 

No question earthly imagery might moot 

Till every star from out the heavens shoot, 
Would even in the slightest sense avail 
One jot or tittle of it to assail, 

And first as last 'twere well if it be mute: 

While absolute philosophy perceive 
An earthly imagery mischievous 

It hold no man therefor responsible; 
Since thus confess it knowingly deceive. 
As one creation in all obvious 
One author of all is ostensible. 



-167- 



CXLII. 

As absolute is, consciousness as sure 

Will be of absolute, none are deceived, 
And pride's deceptions never are believed; 

Whereon fools, liars, hypocrites innure: 

With Christ himself imagination lure 

Mankind, by church and state and mart conceived 
Alone to foster pride, that well perceived 

His truth made all created things demure: 

None are deceived; fool, liar, hypocrite 

Each one, himself, as clear as noon-day sun 
Perceives himself to be, yet pride allure; 
Whence absolute philosophy befit 
Mankind, less evolution force become 
At length what it today will him assure. 



—168— 



CXLIIL 

While quantity is merely sensible, 

Formation cogitable also be; 

Though limit of all possibility 
Makes only semblance comprehensible; 
To render cogitable sensible 

And mere formation mirror truthfully 

Invoked the faculty of imagery; 
And man became an ungovernable: - 

If fatal mishap of creation may 

Attempt at making conscious being seem 
Eventuation only can decide; 
But certain man does not make imagery 
And absolute philosophy hence deem 
Him creature that creation must abide. 



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CXLIV. 

Where semblance of condition shall relate 
Bare quantity will sensible attain, 
Which cogitable as formation train 

If any semblance thence emancipate; 

Such consciousness attempt discriminate, 

Since will relation not the whole restrain. 
Against infinite imagery in vain, 

As worldly kingdom seem doth demonstrate: 

Hence: Mission of a Christ alone avoid 
Slow evolution from predicament 
It seems creation has itself got in. 
Since all philosophy at once destroyed 
By mere look of an imaginary bent; 
But: Evolution will wind even sin. 



—170- 



CXLV. 

The crucial thing for man on earth is what 
To see, whatever be predicament; 
To know whereof life gives a testament, 

Since vain emotion teaching turns to rot; 

Hence, absolute philosophy case spot 

Where thinnest possible environment 
The mortal tonsorial integument 

Protect against what him has surely got: 

In plainest language man what is must know, 
Which absolute philosophy lays bare 
To all who pride and selfishness despise; 
For pride and selfishness on man bestow 
The badge fools, liars, hypocrites seen wear 
By every other creature that has eyes. 



-171- 



CXLVI. 

Resist not evil, said man's true Messiah, 

Resist not evil, says philosophy; 

Since even openly propensity 
Dare absolute condition, and desire 
Mere creatures independently inspire, 

And vainest imagery hypocrisy 

Impose on man as actuality, 
And falsity as consciousness attire: 

They toil not, neither do they spin, who live 

The life creation plan, said the Messiah; 

But vanity bids millions toil in vain; 

For what: The suffering and labor give . 

That pride and selfishness alone inspire 

And never even earthly peace attain . 



-172— 



CXLVII. 

The imagery hypocrisy attire 

Will evolution patiently displace, 

And mortals try again the truth to trace, 

Less heed, perchance, the message of Messiah; 

For absolute philosophy require 

The very truth in absolutes one case, 
And that creation not itself disgrace 

By leaving helpless creature to desire: 

Twixt evolution and desire man 
In absolute philosophy will find 

Decision for occasion mete as sound, 
But absolute philosophy bar plan 

That foster pride or selfish leave mankind. 
And follows Christ as one alone profound. 



-173— 



CXLVIII. 

Resist not evil nor seek benefit 
An absolute philosophy expose 
As terms condition absolute impose 

When consciousness of being shall permit; 

Hence: ''Stiff-necked" Jewry proved itself unfit, 
As living creature, for enduring throes 
All being whatsoever undergoes. 

And insubordination published it: 

A rigid fact existence interpose 
That absolute condition satisfy, 

Whence question only fancy ever ask. 
If absolute condition more enclose 
Than find an absolute philosophy, 
Sure only fancy ever can unmask. 



—174- 



CXLIX. 

The terms of absoluteness are for all, 

Not only bind, but openly pronounce, 
As quantity and quality announce. 

Precisely what creation disenthrall; 

That none more than another ever call; 

Wherefore: Condition found may none renounce, 
Nor may condition other find denounce, 

But waiting each to take what shall befall: 

And truly only in a v^^orld unknown, 
Or in a dream may being seem exist 
Without a method or excuse to give; 
The phantom life that imagery has grown 
On earth awhile continue to persist, 
But still without excuse or method live. 



-175— 



CL. 



Evading all, hypothesis uplift, 

As spectre from imagination loom 

From depth unknown of vast primeval gloom, 

As imagery's one solitary gift 

To mortal man wherewith himself to rift 

Impending cloud of fate, ere startling boom 
Of crack of ever onward coming doom, 

Make needless for him and all any shift: 

Against this absolute philosophy 

Asks simply that man open-eyed perceive 
And nothing whatsoever ask of hope; 
Since argument can only mystify. 

And any faith but man himself deceive 
Where actual is all within his scope. 



176- 



CLI. 

Resist not evil, said the Nazarene, 
To whom as absolute philosophy- 
All life is power of infinity 

That self-willed man is prone to contravene, 

Since pride or fear will human creature wean 
From one existing opportunity 
To follow his own ingenuity 

And quench in folly life's celestial sheen: 

Hence absolute philosophy finds voice 

Of Christ speaks truth and truth alone will speak 
That all who heed shall know the voice they hear. 
And also find that man who makes a choice 
Is bound without a chance of any freak 
To waste a life if ruled by pride or fear. 



-177- 



CLII. 

Before the world was I am, said the Lord; 

And unequivocally Jewish myth 

Brought consciousness of man to face wherewith 
All understanding must be in accord; 
Thence: Absolute, by imagery abhorred, 

As light of day from darkness issue th 

To be of all philosophy the pith, 
And whatsoever else man's life afford: 

But still is imagery a faculty 
Imaginary being lend to man, 
While he imaginary life try live; 
And vain be absolute philosophy 
Against imagination that can plan 

How pride and selfishness can bounty give. 



-178- 



CLIII. 

''Thou shalt" and "Thou shalt not," through Moses speak; 

But Imagery know Imagery thus spoke, 

And sleeping consciousness in none awoke, 
And ever round slow evolution creak 
At grinding ages of poor earthly freak; 

And will go round without a missing stroke 

Till absolute philosophy man yoke 
With truth and dawning light long night's haunts seek: 

Since: Never with imagination cope 

Till consciousness creation give and guide 
For absolute deny to man a deed. 
In absolute philosophy not hope 

But certainty for man is waiting wide. 

If Christ, not priest nor poets, he will heed. 



-179- 



CLIV. 

No system will the truth of Christ enclose 

And pride of man's attempt thereon to found 
A church, or plan salvation, but astound 

As if the unconditioned to expose, 

Will not emotion shown for Christ disclose 

To all the licking tongue of cringing hound 
Far rather than a muscular rebound 

From false to true that through all times re-echoes: 

"Be not deceived" — indeed none are deceived; 
Far better say, "I go not," and still go 
Than to say, "I go," and still go you not. 
On every hand by all of all perceived. 
That pride compels hypocrisy bend low 
To Christianity itself begot. 



180— 



CLV. 

But neither sentiment nor any creed 
Will absolute philosophy allow 
Man, whom condition absolute endow, 

Lest mere imagination should him lead; 

Hence vanish poets as an idle breed 

And priestcraft useless made for never vow 
Without impiety bare any brow, 

When truth of Christ all living men shall heed: 

For absolute, or naught, hence absolute; 
Perception simply all mankind confront. 
About which never question can there be; 
Thence follows certainty without dispute 
To end as should, as did begin as wont. 
An absolute that rules eternity. 



-181- 



CLVI. 

If seem the world a scene of chance and strife 
Where imagery's poor invocations strand 
Not even trying being understand, 

While only is intelligence true life; 

An absolute philosophy, as knife. 

Cuts gordian knot, imagery command, 
If mere imaginary form disband 

And leave reality there only rife: 

But absolute philosophy ply knife 

In vain if none intelligence can boast. 
That will its operation ever test; 
As Christ heard say, "I am the way and life," 
While imagery but see a guiding post 

To one of many ways, perchance, the best. 



-182- 



CLVII. 

Since consciousness without propensity 
Intelligence in him originate, 
Man is what consciousness assimilate 

And ever fashioned thus proportionally; 

Whence: Cannot ever speak soliloquy 
That Hamlet spoke less he annihilate 
With foolish logic what initiate 

Eventual as originality: 

Which as condition absolute abide, 
If any being shall perceive or not, 
And thence ariseth all uncertainty; 
Wherein imagination, roaming wide, 
Is vainly seeking for some other lot 
Than be creation for humanity. 



—183- 



CLVIII. 

The forms that shapelessness allow it make, 
Though boundless shall imagination show, 
If man condition of existence know 

Of absolute sole consciousness partake; 

N'er absolute, n'er anything awake 

And from bare vacancy however grow, 
Whereof whatever be forever flow, 

And wrecked philosophy trail in its wake: 

brother man far better understand 
The simple facts that you, and I, and all 
Are nothing less of absolute a part; 
And if be absolute wherefore command 
Imagination that wormwood and gall 
Alone we drink for all the days we art? 



184- 



CLIX. 

The hope and fear and care that burden man 

Are fruit of that imaginary state 

Where aimless pride his vanity inflate 
Till puts himself without created clan; 
Where consciousness, that ample might lead van, 

Imagination wholly abrogate; 

For sphere on sphere are safely going gait 
Obediently their creator plan: 

Wherefore: When living on the earth Christ said, 
Come unto me and I will give you rest. 
Imagination gibberish but heard; 
Whence: Absolute philosophy right read. 
Still urge mankind to cease an idle quest 
And simply take creation at its word. 



-185- 



CLX. 

With consciousness that ample power hold 

All actuality within its grasp 

And ever careth for all it will clasp, 
The conscious life of man begins unfold; 
Thus finding Christ and getting rest is told, 

While absolute philosophy's last gasp 

Bids man beware of deadlier than asp, 
When vain imagination make him bold : 

It follows that if any think they do. 

Their deeds are naught and they still in the dark, 
For pride in man snuffs out all conscious life. 
Since seeking even heaven's kingdom true 
Sufficed imagination to light spark 

That burned up truth and filled the world with strife. 



-186— 



CLXL 

The Jewish history with sequel in 
Fiasco man calls Christianity, 
Will show conclusively that imagery 

Will never let man's conscious life begin. 

And show imagination cobwebs spin 
In vain to hide an inconsistency 
Like usurpation of God's potency 

To save man's pride while yet renouncing sin: 

And future history will never more 

Disclose unless mankind shall sometime take 
The conscious life creative plan provides; 
For absolute philosophy with sore 

Distress finds man unwilling to forsake 
The system that alone allows him pride. 



■187- 



CLXII. 

A selfish wish, though hope of grace be one, 

Will absolute philosophy deny. 

Since power absolute creation ply 
That on the earth God's will alone be done. 
But baseless reason having their trust won, 

Men, like fools, liars, hypocrites, defy 

The truth, and each with other vie 
Which faster after selfishness can run: 

Though absolute philosophy imputes 

No fault to them, it notes their woeful plight 
In missing life's one opportunity; 
And since for ages past, like praying brutes. 
They have loved darkness rather than the light, 
That evolution must bring sanity. 



-188— 



CLXIII. 

As if a father were in heaven, man 

Can wish that hallowed be his name as worth 

And kingdom come and will be done on earth 
As pre-supposed in heaven of the plan. 
But to wish for his daily bread none can, 

Less truth give place to vanity and dearth 

And absolute philosophy engirth 
But emptiness imagination span: 

When told Christ taught to wish for daily bread 
We hear the language of one listening 

Who still believes "tomorrow" he must heed; 
For plainly so-called living things are dead, 
If power absolute be not the spring 

Of mechanism that nothing shows but speed. 



-189- 



CLXIV. 

Though absolute philosophy bar will 

To every being but the absolute 

That knowledge only shall the truth compute, 
Man's pride will find him reputation still. 
Whence: He has chosen to bear any ill 

Life shall bring rather than the disrepute 

Of creature like dependence of the brute. 
Wherefore imagination his days fill: 

Which, baseless reason also selfish make. 

Though losing self finds only certainty 

Conditional existence ever gain; 

Since, where* condition all existence wake, 

Save unconditioned that gives entity, 

One or the other only can pertain. 



-190— 



CLXV. 

Would argument give rest to imagery 
Still actuality will none parade, 
Perceived or known, by evolution made 

Is light of absolute philosophy; 

That light, if man take conscious entity, 
Abides unceasingly him to persuade 
Ere ruthless might of evolution grade 

Down opposition of propensity: 

They seek, said Christ, a sign where is no sign, 
As child, or stick, or stone, or idiot 

Might know, but not man bound by imagery; 
Who dream imagination will define 
For blind humanity some random lot 
Beyond confines of actuality. 



■191— 



CLXVL 

All things adroit in self -persistence prove 

Less actual condition fickle seem; 

Whence imagery once getting life to dream 
Finds law at hand to keep it in a groove. 
Though from propensity man slowly move, 

Since consciousness of truth is still supreme, 

If once thereof mankind received a gleam 
No other light would him again behoove: 

So: "Thou Shalt have no other God but me;" 
Whence evolution pester Jewry sore 

Found not the jew, because he saw not truth. 
And, likewise, modern Christianity 
That will abandon imagery no more 
Than jew, await impossible of ruth. 



-192- 



CLXVII. 

While imagery on argument depend, 

The whole of absolute philosophy • 

Is ''Thou shalt have no other God but me;" 
That never other argument extend 
Than certain woe that disputant attend; 

Which: Will, however slowly, surely be 

Triumphant over man's apostacy 
Before all things come to their final end: 

Were reason else than imagery 'tis sure 
Mankind would not abide prolonged distress 

When but a moment's thought will give him ease; 
But reason being imagery assure 
To imagery the kingdom it possess, 
Till evolution cures this mind disease. 



—193— 



CLXVIII. 

Mere reason only will assure mankind 

So long as faith will pay it deference, 
But either with creative plan dispense 

That clearly consciousness of truth outlined. 

Whence: When to either state man be resigned, 
Mankind's condition is a gulf immense 
That must be crossed ere conscious life commence 

If man become the conscious life designed: 

Nor reason even dare attempt refute 
That conscious stress, continual in man, 
Of vanity of all persuasion heard; 
Does not dominion over him dispute 
With all imagination bid him scan. 

Though consciousness of truth not a by-word. 



-194- 



CLXIX. 

In possibility designed is end, 

Development becoming so complete 
That consciousness fair actual will meet 

And heaven's kingdom to the earth descend; 

Wherefore: Creative plan no aid amend 

And pride of man at length, as thing elf ete, 
Will with imagination vanish fleet, 

Since actual will neither comprehend: 

Nor reason point a tale where created man 
Shall absolute withstand as vanity 
And mock with imagery the actual; 
A little while deride creative plan, 
But sometime absolute philosophy, 
Abiding still, will vagrants all recall. 



-195- 



LCXX. 

When reason sleeps and conscious life awake 
A father may in heaven be whose will 
On earth- be done and daily bread may fill, 

Forgiving may forgiving others make, 

And spoliation all mankind forsake. 

Temptation cease, nor any finding ill, 
Since glory of the father evil kill 

Ere actual man actual life take: 

And reason even will forever sleep 
If once imagination man evade 

And consciousness of absolute receive; 
And man will cease to seek, or wanting weep, 
Nor hope, nor fear, will consciousness degrade 
If Absolute as absolute perceive. 



—196— 



CLXXI. 

When be imagination put aside 

From seeming chaos still will order flow 

And seeming halting steps still onward go 
And consciousness attend no other stride; 
And unconditioned still itself safe hide, 

And manifested condition only show; 

For all revealed make vacant long ago 
Where wantonness of fancy lone abide: 

Whence: Alsolute philosophy content 
When knowledge of condition will define 
As consciousness what absolute shall stress; 
Whence, absolute or nothing be extent 
That even supposition will confine 

And consciousness hence absolute possess. 



197- 



CLXXII. 

While imagery of Christ madfe testament 
It nothing understood of what he said; 
Hence merely more imagination fed 

Unconscious man in guise of blandishment 

Of fanciful rewards and punishment; 

Whence: Pride and selfishness have blindly led 
Man into a condition Christ called dead, 

And absolute philosophy unblent: 

Since consciousness save absolute awake 
Sensation to state of intelligence 
Will stay a dormant unused faculty; 
Whence: Till imagination man forsake, 

All seeming consciousness is mere pretence 
And life of man not yet an entity. 



—198- 



CLXXIII. 

Pride by imagination only fed 

Self-consequence finds in mere blandishment 
Of possible rewards and punishment 

That selfish living safely may seem to tread; 

Whence absolute philosophy is said 

To find mankind himself makes testament 
To living in condition called unblent, 

Or as more aptly called by Christ that's dead: 

And reason has to face this truth each day, 
And all imagination cannot find 
A place or time wherein it to hide; 
And never shame put mortal life away 
Till ceasing willfully to wander blind 
In absolute philosophy abide. 



-199- 



CLXXIV. 

The mournful shall be comforted and are blest, 
But pope, priest, layman or evangelist 
Who may with righteousness by choice enlist 

In vain expect to find anointed one's rest. 

Perchance, Brethren of the Cup, we test. 
Though none to do us reverence insist. 
While pride and selfishness and will persist. 

Of all the world 'tis sad to think the best: 

Not here and now, but therQ when bare and poor 
The scattered fragments of infirmity 

Are gathered with the pseudomorphs and judged. 
None are deceived; each one knows furthermore 
That fooling, lying and hypocrisy 
Will nowhere in futurity be lodged. 



200- 



CLXXV. 

Shall each one live to stress but mite of mold, 

While seeing never will wrong's theme exhaust, 
Or patient tracing find aught pay its cost 

And end slow evolution will unfold; 

But heayen's kingdom bring to world that's old, 
When absolute philosophy has tossed 
Aside all barrier between the lost 

And day when conscious man shall truth behold: 

• To absolute philosophy as truth 

That Christ alone exposed to sight of man 
Will man and maker owe the end when one; 
. For never old be world of wayward youth, 
Enough while evolution slow lead van 

To see pride, selfishness and will have done. 



—201— 



CLXXVI. 

"Come unto me and I will give you rest," 
Says absolute philosophy to man 
Since voice of Christ he did not understand 

And still encumbers earth, an idle pest; 

And streams of tears that ever flow attest 

How pride and selfishness have led the van 
Of life away from wise creation's plan 

To do imagination's vain behest: 

Except a man be bom again, said Christ, 
He cannot enter into heaven's life, 
Which in imaginary life is lost, 
And wandering, if even with a priest. 
Save guiding light, as Moses had, is strife 
Without an end, whatever be its cost. 



—202- 



CLXXVIL. 

Since consciousness and life together fare 
And sheer imagination reigned on earth, 
Christ said, mankind awaits another birth 

To be the creatures of an ample care. 

Since consciousness is even thin as air 
Imagination easily ape its worth, 
Though absolute condition it engirth 

As pseudo-consciousness of men declare j. 

Since from unseen relations ever flow i ;?~ 
All sensibles that consciousness can stress, 
It comes as cometh thief by night, Christ said. 
Since even lilies of the valley blow, ■ 
So aiding hand a single flower dress 
Creation ends and life from all has fled. 



-203- 



CLXXVIII. 

Perchance: Imagination ever doubt 

From Whither back to Whence be absolute, 
Though else be nothing even to compute 

And self Imagination also rOut; 

Nor Logic other than a henchman stout 
To blow Imagination's windy flute 
That aggregations wantoning en route 

To thin Attenuation whistles out: 

And thus all being will attenuate 
Till Vanity itself alone display 
Triumphant, gravely, over Entity; 
Thus, aimless Hope denied, Life aggravate 
To put all Actuality away 

And find in Emptiness Satiety. 



204— 



CLXXIX. 

Perchance, Pride, Selfishness and Will persist 
From whence to whither will be absolute 
For naught; since thence Imagination loot 

Mankind of consciousness that Truth exist; 

Nor Faith be other than Will-o'-the-Wisp 
Wherewith Imagination deftly suit 
The Idiocy of those Self-Astute 

Whom knowingly no leadership enlist: 

Thence: Consciousness of Truth give place to pride, 
And Folly, Lying and Hypocrisy 

Life far and wide and long despoil of worth; 
But Absolute Condition will abide. 
And patient Absolute Philosophy 

Await the day when Conscious Man have birth. 



-205- 



. CLXXX. 

The lonesome individual man spurns 
A homogeneity for fancied form 
Of heterogeneity his warm 

Imagination out of nothing turns; 

Hence through sensation never being learns 
And some day will awake with just alarm 
In vacancy that nowhere shows the norm 

Of conscious life for which creation yearns: 

A lookeron in Verona till then 
An idle occupation plies and jests 

With seriousness if marks what passes by. 
I am the way, the life, says Christ again. 
And still again, and ever truth attests 
Through him an absolute philosophy. 



—206— 



CLXXXI. 

Unspun the textile waits on coming deft, 

And warp and woof in thread abide till drawn, 
For individuality is spawn 

Of Rock of Ages never for it cleft. 

Each individual has wholly left 

A seamless past behind to spend its brawn 
In keeping face to ever breaking dawn 

Of day that never yesterday bereft: 

All consciousness will therefore find its scope 
On seamless rock of ages cleft for none 
While watching dawn of ever coming day. 
In vain imagination rises hope 

That other consciousness will still be won 
That leads mankind in waywardness astray. 



-201 



CLXXXII. 

Lord, arise, help and deliver us 

For Thy name's sake. We have heard with our ears 
As have declared our fathers through the seers. 

And know the mighty works that Thou enforce; 

Lord, arise, help and deliver us 

From pride and foolish faith and idle fears 
That baseless phantom Hope in man uprears 

Since Eos woke his eons dolorous: 

Lord, arise, help and deliver man, 

According to Thy greatness sow and reap. 
Nor wait on Evolution's harvest slow. 
Lord: According to Thy good old plan 
Have living man his life alive to keep 
And consciousness of truth to ever show. 



n ^8 1902 
ICOPVBEL. TGCAT.D«V, 
APR. 28 1902 



